Children
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old people are a kind of monsters to little folks; mild manifestations of the terrible, it may be, but still, with their white locks and ridged and grooved features, which those horrid little eyes exhaust of their details like so many microscopes, not exactly what human beings ought to be.
Archibald Mcleish
A child shows gratitude the way a woman/Shows she likes a pretty dress—/Puts it on and takes it off again—
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Khalil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
Katherine Larson
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination. J. R. R.
J.M. Barrie
Every time a child says ‘I don’t believe in fairies’ there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Kurt Vonnegut
We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. “My God, my God—” I said to myself, “it’s the Children’s Crusade.”
Rabindranath Tagore
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children.
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to theirParents, or the Country, and for Making ThemBeneficial to the Public.
Sócrates
The children now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the slaves of their households. They no longer rise when an elder enters the room, they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up the dainties at the table, cross their legs and tyrannize over their pedagogues.
John Ruskin
The first duty of a State is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attains years of discretion.