Children Quotes

One thing vampire children are taught is, never run with a wooden stake.

I know of no pleasure that quite matches that of seeing your youngster proudly flaunting something you have made.

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Once the children were in the house the air became more vivid and more heated; every object in the house grew more alive.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we’d had.

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 […]

The scars left from the child’s defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

What society thinks and feels about its children is an index of its attitudes about a great number of things: knowledge, power, sex, the future.