Through our children we… have a kind of spiritual reprieve.
Children Quotes
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
We are drowning our youngsters in violence, cynicism and sadism piped into the living room and even the nursery. The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn’t slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.
A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still.
The child-soul is an ever-bubbling fountain in the world of humanity.
When our kids are young, many of us rush out to buy a cute little baby book to record the meaningful events of our young child’s life. . . But I’ve often thought there should be a second book, one with room to record the moral milestones of our child’s lives. There might be space […]
(Towards the end of a long buggy trip in the country now under a full moon) the little man behaved himself still like an old traveler; but sometimes he looked round at me from the front seat (where he sat between Herman Melville and Evert Duyckinck) and smiled at me with a peculiar expression, and […]
