The shoemakers children go barefoot.
Children Quotes
Don’t talk to strangers, but love thy neighbor true I don’t know who’s the stranger and I don’t know what to do. Who’s who? Who’s who? Who’s the friend of mine? How can those I do not know be both at the very same time? If I do not know your name or your Mom […]
The more I encourage my child to think for himself, the more he will care what I think.
What the children hear at home soon flies abroad.
Sometimes they make me angry and then I become real sad. Cause they don’t always let me speak, My folks, my Mom and Dad. I really know when I have done, A thing that’s not too good. And that makes me feel awful, And I’d stop it if I could. Sometimes I don’t watch what […]
We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.
Many children, and little bread, is a painful pleasure.
When Mom and Dad have visitors they like to show me off. They ask me to recite a poem and you know that I’ll cough. When they ask me to sing a song, you can make a bet, That I’ll begin again and in between will say, “Aw, I forget.” I know that they are […]
A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will be soon a man.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
