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“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.”
Henri Rousseau, Child with a Puppet, 1903, oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm (Kunsthalle, Winterthur, Switzerland)
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
“Fairy tales do not give a child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”
