Let children walk with Nature let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life their joyous inseparable unity as taught in woods and meadows plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star and they will learn that death is stingless indeed and as beautiful as life.
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is mans lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or if allowed to suffer from neglect a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community…. The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.
When childhood dies its corpses are called adults and they enter society one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children even if we love them they show us the state of our decay.
CHILDHOOD n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
We spend the first twelve months of our childrens lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
See what will happen if you dont stop biting your fingernails?
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster too.
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Let children walk with Nature let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life their joyous inseparable unity as taught in woods and meadows plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star and they will learn that death is stingless indeed and as beautiful as life.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
If ever we hear a case of lying we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Children sweeten labors but they make misfortunes more bitter.
To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while.
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is mans lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children to prattle to creep and to play with them?
Madam theres no such thing as a tough child – if you parboil them first for seven hours they always come out tender.
We cant form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
There must always be a struggle between a father and son while one aims at power and the other at independence.
Children and fools speak true.
The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.
I love children especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
Children are poor mens riches.
Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or if allowed to suffer from neglect a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community…. The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
I love my kids but I would not want any of them for friends.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
Too often whe give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
When childhood dies its corpses are called adults and they enter society one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children even if we love them they show us the state of our decay.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents for these only gave life those the art of living well.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
Education commences at the mothers knee and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
CHILDHOOD n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
A man who lives right and is right has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Reasoning with a child is fine if you can reach the childs reason without destroying your own.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves alot of expense and aggravation later in life.
If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child everything usually works out pretty well.
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself Lillian you should have stayed a virgin.