My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.
Children Quotes
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
They are playing a game. If I show them I see they are playing a game, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play the game of not seeing that I play the game.
And he who gives a child a treat, Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven’s street; And he who gives a child a home, Builds palaces in Kingdom come.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
I remember a lot of talk and a lot of laughter. I must have talked a great deal because Martha used to say again and again, “You remember you said this, you said that… ” She remembered everything I said, and all my life I’ve had the feeling that what I think and what I […]
No one keeps a secret so well as a child.
I would rather have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his […]
In our time one has to ask children and the ignorant for news of the future. The saying in the Talmud that after the destruction of the temple prophesy we have taken from the wise and given to children and fools reflect the disarray and perplexity of a time of trouble. When things become unhinged, […]
