Kathleen Norris Children Quotations

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.