A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Author: Lyman Abbott (1835-1922)
Profession: American Congregational Clergyman and Editor
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
Author: John Adams (1735-1826)
Profession: Second President of the USA
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
Author: Maya Angelou (1928)
Profession: African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Author: Maya Angelou (1928)
Profession: African-American poet, Writer, Performer
It's fun being a kid.
Author: Bradford Arthur Angier
Profession:
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
Author: W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Profession: Anglo-American Poet
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Author: Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)
Profession: French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Author: James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Profession: American Author
There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
Author: James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Profession: American Author
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Author: Lucille Ball (1911-1989)
Profession: American Actress, Producer
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Author: Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
Profession: British Playwright, Poet
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.
Author: Ben Bergor
Profession:
Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]
Author: Bible
Profession: Sacred Scriptures of Christian
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]
Author: Bible
Profession: Sacred Scriptures of Christian
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]
Author: Bible
Profession: Sacred Scriptures of Christian