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"The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book."
"I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that."
"What I'm asking people to do is to look at their lives, wherever they may be. I mean, you may be a housewife or a mother in Gauteng and you're driving your kid to school, you know, and you've got one kid in the back and you're driving 30 kilometres to school and 30 kilometres back, so 60 kilometres in a day, to take one child to school. Is there a possibility that you can put a few more kids, some friends' kids in the car, and start saving on those types of things?"
"It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter"
"Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter...will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age."
"They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin."
"The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast; Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair."
"(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child."
"It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids."
"As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did."
"No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror."
"Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere"
"Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing."
"Will without power is like children playing at soldiers."
"Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour."
"Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child."
"But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world."
"Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey."
"He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike."
""Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?"
