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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is read more
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their read more
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert read more
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.
Our children's children will hear a good story.
Our children's children will hear a good story.
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and read more
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of read more
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. -Tom Savage.
