"The Angel that presided

o’er my birthSaid, “Little creature,

formed of Joy and Mirth,

Go, love without the help of anything on

Earth.”- William Blake

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed,

but they shall speak with the enemies

in the gate. Psalms

(ch. CXXVII, v. 3-5)

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive

plants round about thy table. Psalms (ch. CXXVIII, v. 3)

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in

it. ~ George Eliot , The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~ Malcolm de

Chazal

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colours are

brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever

again. ~ Elizabeth Lawrence

Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.

~ William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

~ Ken Hill

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark

hour of reason grows. ~ John Betjeman

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

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood

and three from the remorse of age.

~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

~ Author Unknown

The greatest poem ever known is one all poets have outgrown:

The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

~ Christopher Morley, To a Child

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. - Carl Zucker

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old

home you missed but your childhood. ~ Sam Ewing

They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise; His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, His glory still gleams in their eyes; Those

truants from home and from Heaven They have made me more manly and mild; And I

know now how Jesus could liken The kingdom of God to a child.

Author: Charles M. Dickinson Source: The Children

I'd give all wealth that years have piled,

The slow result of Life's decay,To be once more a little childFor one bright summer day. ~ Lewis Carroll, "Solitude"

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose

weight is take a bath. ~ Author Unknown

Children have more need of models than of critics.

- Joseph Joubert

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -

Hodding Carter

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

vision.- Aldous Huxley

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

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

the year.- Eleanor Farjeon

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

~ Tom Stoppard

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

- Goethe

My lovely living Boy, My hope, my happiness, my Love, my life, my joy. - Guillaume de

Salluste Du Bartas

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