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

A child's a plaything for an hour.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood', but only to be loved, even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.