If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.