#child

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#course #dreams #high #horse #i

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive? ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#children #experts #feeling #festive #good

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#child #dead #down #every #every time

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#child #dead #down #everytime #fairies

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. ↗

— Dave Barry

#child #dracula #example #for example #i

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#because #child #day #different #different schools

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience

Genius is childhood recalled at will. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#genius #recalled #will

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#adult #children #demand #festival #funny

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#concept #morality #much #often #stronger