“As in all self-respecting families, an emporium had been established where family secrets were bartered, and family stock priced.”
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
“Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for.”
“It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.”
Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878, oil on canvas, 89 x 129.5 cm (Musée d’Orsay)
“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.”
“A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.”
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Children’s Games, 1560, oil on panel, 118 x 161 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.”
“Strange children should smile at each other and say, ‘Let’s play.’”
fouvvara. fountain of youth, ©Ramnath Siva: Shot in New Delhi near the India Gate monument, where kids come during summer months to cool off and have fun. Via tindink
“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
Marc Chagall, Miriam dances, 1931, from the series Etchings for the Bible (1930-1939; 1952-1956) gouache, oil on paper, 62 x 49 cm (Musée national Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, France)
“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
