What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Children Quotes
It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive- they In whom our brightest days we would retrace, Our little selves reform’d in finer clay, Just as old age is creeping on apace, And clouds come o’er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, […]
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
I think the gods may give us children to teach us what true love really is, that we may be fitted for Their company at the last. A lesson for those of us whose hearts are too dull and inert to learn any other way.
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
The bear licks, loves, and forms her young; but bears are not philosophers. (on Rousseau’s having abandoned his children to orphanages)
Our children, before they are born, God declares that he adopts for his own when he promised that he will be a God to us, and our seed after us. In this promise their salvation is included.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
This morning, my son told me that he and his pal Brian are going to build a time machine so they can zap themselves back to prehistory and cavort with the dinosaurs. Should they succeed, I’m going to ask him to drop me off in my own childhood. Nothing against the Jurassic period, but it […]
