
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

What is a home without children? Quiet.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Hugs can do great amounts of good — especially for children.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

An honest man is always a child.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.