Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to read more

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to sit where you are sitting and when you are gone, attend to the things which you think are important. The fate of humanity is in his or her hand.

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things read more

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does read more

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.

Children have more need of models than critics.

Children have more need of models than critics.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of read more

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went read more

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.