The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
Children Quotes
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, […]
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.
