There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.
Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
Miracle is the pet child of faith.
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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