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We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 9: Ethical Outlook
- Education
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Lucille Ball1911–1989Love, Lucy (1996), p. 235
- Family
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
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
All children, except one, grow up.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 1In context
- Youth
When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’s mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 17In context
Two is the beginning of the end.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIn context
- Age
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIn context
- Comedy
‘I don’t want ever to be a man,’ he said with passion. ‘I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIIIn context
- Youth
‘No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter IIIIn context
- Faith
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Laughter
I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one’s heart and brings its own reward.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
- Fame
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), IntroductionIn context
The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)