Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.
Children Quotes
Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
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.
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.
