One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it better.
Children Quotes
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.
There should be no enforced respect for grown-ups. We cannot prevent children from thinking us fools by merely forbidding them to utter their thoughts; in fact, they are more likely to think ill of us if they dare not say so.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun.
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake mommy before noon.
The grownup’s response to me was to advise me to lay aside my drawing and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. Grown ups never understand anything by themselves, and this is […]
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
