“I take my children everywhere. Unfortunately, they find a way home.”

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”

...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed, to their full human stature. That was where Aline's talent lay.

Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

“Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.” 

And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.” 

“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better” 

“Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.” 

“Familiarity breeds contempt and children.”

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”

I think the smartest people can explain things to a child. If you can’t explain it to a child, then you don’t know it.

“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.” 

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”