The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun.
Children Quotes
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.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Did you ever know any grown-ups who got married and then later they got a divorce? – Well, it is something people can talk about, and it’s something important. I know a little boy and a little girl whose mother and father got divorced, and those children cried and cried. And you know why? Well, […]
