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I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Response when a dignitary asked if he could better control his daughter, as quoted in Hail to the Chiefs : My Life and Times with Six Presidents (1970) by Ruth Shick Montgomery, and TIME magazine (3 March 1980)
- Presidency
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss1904–1991Horton Hears a Who! (1954)
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joseph Joubert1754–1824Pearls of Thought (1881), p. 40
It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 16
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Stray Birds (1916), 77
- God
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene1904–1991The Power and the Glory (1940), Pt. I, ch. 1
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (1596–7), Act II, scene ii.In context
- Family
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (1605–6), Act I, scene iv.In context
- Family
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
Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Re: United States Committee for UNICEF (25 July 1963)
- Hope
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
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860)In context
No one knows you like a person with whom you’ve shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. (p84)
Alice Hoffmanborn 1952Practical Magic (1995)
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.
Frank Zappa1940–1993“Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa”, in MOJO magazine (October 1993).
- Family
You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 3In context
- Laughter