Small Child Quotes - Page 9

• Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Anchors

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• Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Children, Behavior, Term

  "Solaris". Book by Stanislaw Lem, ch. 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 199, 1961.

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• Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Children, Dangerous World

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Baby, Jobs, Children

  T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”

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