A low selflove in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune… I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and […]
Children Quotes
I never met a kid I liked.
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
Madam, there’s no such thing as a tough child – if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
There’s not a man in America who at one time or another hasn’t had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.
Children are all foreigners.
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
I once became really annoyed at my daughter Julie, who was two or three years old at the time, and decided on an old army routine to punish her. When she spoke to me, I required that every sentence begin and end with the word “sir.” “Sir, may I go out and play, sir?” “Sir, […]
