There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Oh the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.
I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
God is faithful even when his children are not.
It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.
We are the world, we are the children...
The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642.
Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.
Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.