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I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that’s the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Chapter 4: A Cunning Conspiracy
“Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIn context
- Comedy
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Forgiveness
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. XVII: “The Red Angel”
- Fear
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901)
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Broadcast (21 March 1943), quoted in The Times (22 March 1943), p. 6
So for the mother’s sake the child was dear,
And dearer was the mother for the child.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me” (1797)
- Family
Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home! They will never be happy in this world, and when they are older they will be very sorry for it.
Carlo Collodi1826–1890The Adventures of Pinocchio (1881–1883), Chapter 4In context
- Family
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
- Sex
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900–1944Le Petit Prince (1943)
- Maturity
In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Justice
It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter VIIn context