Quotations About / On: CHILDREN

  • 1.
    Be good to all even a child for a child will not always be a child.
    (Children remember many things and even what people do to them.)
  • 2.
    America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
    (Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century), U.S. editor, writer. Family and Politics, ch. 3 (1983).)
    , children, america
  • 3.
    Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
    (Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. Nekayah, in The History of Rasselas, ch. 26 (1759).)
    , children, child
  • 4.
    "Teaching children is an accomplishment; getting children excited about learning is an achievement."
    (Robert John Meehan)
  • 5.
    Mother lost her children, children lost their parents.
    (Cruelty)
  • 6.
    Christmas is the song of children's joy and the beginning of children's wish
    (Susan Aparejo's personal quote)
  • 7.
    My child is always my child and, nothing will come between us.
    (Bond)
  • 8.
    The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.
    (Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century), U.S. journalist. Child-Wise, ch. 5 (1994).)
    , child
  • 9.
    There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
    (Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist. The House in Paris, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935).)
    , children, alone
  • 10.
    Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
    (Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist. Mme. Gaston in a letter to Mme. De l'Estorade, in Letters of Two Brides (Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées), in La Presse (1841-1842), Souverain (1842), included in the Scènes de la Vie Privée in the Comédie humaine (1845, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971).)
    , loss, children, beauty, alone, woman

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