Child Quotations | Page 5

We'd like to build something nice, something well-engineered, something parents would want to pass down to their children and grandchildren.

We believe that at this particular point, the best interests of the children will be with the grandmother.

While living, apparently, as modern men and women, using electric fans and electric irons, telephones and trains, and aeroplanes, when they can afford it, they nourish in their hearts a deep contempt for the childish conceit and bloated hopes of our age, and for the various recipes for saving, mankind, which zealous philosophers and politicians thrust into circulation. They know that nothing can save mankind, for mankind is reaching the end of its present cycle. The wave that carried it, for so mane millenniums, is about to break, with all the fury of acquired speed, and to merge once more into the depth of the unchanging Ocean of undifferentiated existence. It will rise; again, some day, with abrupt majesty, for such is the law of waves. But in the meantime nothing can be done to stop it.

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.