childhood

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood' but only to be loved even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.

Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

What's done to children they will do to society.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.

Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.