Childrens Day

“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”
Elizabeth Lawrence



“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust



There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
Deepak Chopra



"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
Tom Stoppard



"For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.”
Anonymous



“The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day”
John Milton



Childhood is the sleep of reason.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau



“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”
John Betjeman



Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.”
George F Will



We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today
Stacia Tauscher



You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~Franklin P. Jones



A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
~Author Unknown



We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
~Christopher Morley



A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
~Author Unknown



Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
~Harold Hulbert



A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan



Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
~William Stafford



Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983



Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981



If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
~Pearl S. Buck



Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
~Rabindranath Tagore



You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762



Children make you want to start life over.
~Muhammad Ali



There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
~Author Unknown


A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985



What is a home without children? Quiet.
~Henny Youngman



There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945



Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto



Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
~Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969



Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
~Robert Gallagher



The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
~Joe Houldsworth



There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
~Frank A. Clark



There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff



To all my pupils and children from P6 GE Rosyth 2005, Happy Childrens Day. You will always be children to me.