Child Quotes

• "Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age; with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er._"
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 275)
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• "The wildest colts only make the best horses."
  By: Plutarch, Life of Themistocles
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• "Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by severe discipline. [Lat., Parentes objurgatione digni sunt, qui nolunt liberos suos severa lege proficere.]"
  By: Petronius (Caius Petronius Arbiter), Satyricon (IV)
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• "A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play."
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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• "Ah, there are no children nowadays. [Fr., Ah, il n'y a plus d'enfant.]"
  By: Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Le Malade Imaginaire (II, 2)
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• "As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 330)
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• "The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 220)
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• "Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child."
  By: John Masefield, Everlasting Mercy (st. 67)
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• "And he who gives a child a treat Makes Joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth, Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth."
  By: John Masefield, Everlasting Mercy (st. 50)
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• "Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely white unwritten book; A book that God will take, my friend, As each goes out at journey's end."
  By: John Masefield, Everlasting Mercy (st. 27)
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• "Who can foretell for what high cause This daring of the gods was born?"
  By: Andrew Marvell, the Younger, Picture of T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
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• "Ay, these young things lie safe in our hearts just so long As their wings are in growing; and when these are strong They break it, and farewell! the bird flies!"
  By: Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (canto VI, pt. II, st. 29)
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• "Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Possibilities
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• "Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Children (st. 4)
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• "There was a little girl, And she had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good she was very, very good, When she was bad she was horrid."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "Oh, would I were a boy again, When life seemed formed of sunny years, And all the heart then knew of pain Was wept away in transient tears!"
  By: Mark Lemon, Oh, Would I Were a Boy Again
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