Children

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  • I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
        David Lloyd George   Best?
  • Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
        Adolph Monod   Best?
  • That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it.
        Mel Brooks   Best?
  • Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.
        Charles Boyle   Best?
  • The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
        Plato   Best?
  • The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
        Confucious   Best?
  • The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
        Pooh's Little Instruction Book   Best?
  • A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
        Knights of Pythagoras   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
        Rabbinical Saying   Best?
  • Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
        Jonathan Kozol   Best?
  • Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
        Reggie Leach   Best?
  • Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
        Norman Podhoretz   Best?
  • D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
        W. Somerset Maugham   Best?
  • Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
        Marilyn Ferguson   Best?
  • Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
        Robert Byrne   Best?
  • It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • "True faith and everlasting patience solely grows in the hearts of the children left alone in the maze of bitter darkness"
        amy   Best?
  • Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
        Irish Proverb   Best?
  • We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless... We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action. No action.
        Michael Jackson   Best?
  • The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.
        Maria Montessori   Best?
  • The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.
        Brian Sutton-Smith   Best?
  • MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation -- Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentlmean. Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class -- altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct species.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.
        Karl Buhler   Best?
  • The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
        Maria Montessori   Best?
  • A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.
        Otto von Bismarck   Best?
  • Revolt, my child, revolt is a quick axe cleaving dead wood in the forest by night. The woodsman of the day is the executioner.
        Alexander Trocchi   Best?
  • Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
        John Locke   Best?
  • Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments.
        Ayn Rand   Best?

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