Children - Quotes
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
We all want happiness for our children, but they don`t have to be happy about everything all the time. Life must include sadness, and there`s peace and truth to be found in sadness. The best times are not always the happiest times, but the times spent in the flow, the times spent getting things done, the times spent living.
Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefix`d to my tables of examination, for daily use: "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me."
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That`s what makes them children.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Children and lunatics cut what the poet patiently spends his life in trying to untie.