When I bring you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints.
Children Quotes
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
Every child has a right to its own bent… It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as […]
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
We can’t all leave a prestigious background or lots of money to visit our children, but we can leave them a legacy of love.
I can remember, at the age of five, being told that childhood was the happiest period of life (a blank lie, in those days). I wept inconsolably, wished I were dead, and wondered how I should endure the boredom of the years to come.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it better.
In the child, happiness dances; in the man, at most it smiles or weeps. When a man dances, he can only express the beauty of his art, not himself or his feelings.
