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 Quotes
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, […]
I’ve been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile-justice system. We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home, and the most to institutionalize him.
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
How children survive being Brought Up amazes me.
Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love and support will plant a small seed of hope.
The report of the Central Commission relates that the manufacturers began to employ children rarely of five years, often of six, very often of seven, usually of eight to nine years; that the working day often lasted fourteen to sixteen hours, exclusive of meals and intervals; that the manufacturers permitted overlookers to flog and maltreat […]
