Children Quotes

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

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.