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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely read more
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about read more
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to read more
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of read more
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. -Tom Savage.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.