Old but still true
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
---------------------------------
There are only two things a child will share willingly — communicable diseases and his mother's age.
- Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945
---------------------------------
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
---------------------------------
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- C.S. Lewis
---------------------------------
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
---------------------------------
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein
---------------------------------
Share your best quotes with us!
|