Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent […]
Children Quotes
There are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges.
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parent. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue, or mischief.
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight.
Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
