childhood

Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.

Children should be seen and not heard.

When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.

Do ye hear the children weeping O my brothers?

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

A wise son maketh a glad father.