December 7th, 2017 | Updated on June 28th, 2022
1. If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.-Albert Einstein
2. You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.-Madeleine L’Engle
3. A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.-C.S. Lewis
4. Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.-Gustave Flaubert
5. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.-George Bernard Shaw
6. All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
7. A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children-Markus Zusak
8. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.-Margaret Mead
9. Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.-Dr. Seuss
10. A childhood without books that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.-Astrid Lindgren
11. Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.-Gustave Flaubert
12. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.-James Baldwin
13. When God Created Mothers”. When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of “overtime” when the angel appeared and said. “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.” And God said, “Have you read the specs on this order?” She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts…all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands.”The angel shook her head slowly and said. “Six pairs of hands…. no way.” It’s not the hands that are causing me problems,” God remarked, “it’s the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have.” That’s on the standard model?” asked the angel. God nodded.One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, ‘What are you kids doing in there?’ when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn’t but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. ‘I understand and I love you’ without so much as uttering a word.”God,” said the angel touching his sleeve gently, “Get some rest tomorrow….” I can’t,” said God, “I’m so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick…can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger…and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower.” The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. “It’s too soft,” she sighed. But tough!” said God excitedly. “You can imagine what this mother can do or endure.” Can it think?” Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise,” said the Creator. Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. There’s a leak,” she pronounced. “I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model.” It’s not a leak,” said the Lord, “It’s a tear.” What’s it for?” It’s for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride.” You are a genius, ” said the angel. Somberly, God said, “I didn’t put it there.-Erma Bombeck
14. No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,” he began, “especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?” “They go to hell,” was my ready and orthodox answer. “And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?” “No, sir.” “What must you do to avoid it?” I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: “I must keep in good health and not die. -Charlotte Bronte
15. Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!-Bram Stoker
Source: inspirations.newszii.com
