Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for […]
Children Quotes
We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Oh! To be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living […]
A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
A low selflove in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune… I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and […]
I never met a kid I liked.
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
Madam, there’s no such thing as a tough child – if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
There’s not a man in America who at one time or another hasn’t had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.
