Tag Archives: children

The family

What a type of happy family is the family of the sun! with what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent’s … Continue reading

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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. Thornton Wilder

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Children, elders, & listening

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin

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Don’t worry that children never listen to you

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum

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A glimpse of the cosmic dance

When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, … Continue reading

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Literature

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down, 1965

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More important to my children’s health

It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician. Meryl Streep

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Happiness is…

Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Thomas Szasz

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The fight for liberty

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.  Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.  And their grandchildren are once more slaves. D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

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