A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.
Children Quotes
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
I see the mind of a five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
We have named it Cain. She caught it while I was up country trapping; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out – or it might have been four, she isn’t certain which. It resembles us in some ways, and may be a relation. That is what she thinks, but this […]
Childhood is short, maturity is forever. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
Confucius said, “Obey your father and mother.” He did not mean though, “Obey them right or wrong.” A good child protects the good name of his or her parents by refusing to obey any order that is seriously wrong.
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.
