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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller1917–2012
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
Walt Disney1901–1966The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child.
Walt Disney1901–1966Recorded statement (1938) used in The Pixar Story (2008)
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
Walt Disney1901–1966Deeds Rather Than Words (1963)
Love children especially, for like the angels they too are sinless, and they live to soften and purify our hearts, and, as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book VI, Chapter 3: Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
- Love
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and as it were to guide us.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
- Love
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
- Education
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward VIII1894–1972Look magazine (5 March 1957).
- America
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
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child’s.
George Eliot1819–1880Silas Marner (1861), Part I, Chapter XIVIn context
- Hope
These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Emotion
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby “it.”
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe⁠—
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew.
Eugene Field1850–1895Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (1889)In context
- Sleep
Because class oppression of women and children is couched in the phraseology of “cute” it is much harder to fight than open oppression.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 4
- Women
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790