Quotes About Children

Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home,Your house is on fire, and your children will burn.

Here comes a candle to light you to bed,Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.

With a rowley powley gammon and spinach,Heigh-ho says Anthony Rowley.

London Bridge is falling down,My fair lady.

Sukey, take it off again,They've all gone away.

Rain, rain, go away,Come again another day.

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,Kitty Fisher found it;There was not a penny in it,But a ribbon round it.

Ten little Indians standing in a line—One went home, and then there were nine.

Sing, sing! What shall I sing?The cat's run away with the pudding-bag string.

Little Tommy TittlemouseLived in a little house;He caught fishesIn other men's ditches.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,She had so many children she didn't know what to do;She gave them some broth without any bread,She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell,Heigho! the derry oh, the farmer in the dell.

O do you know the muffin man,The muffin man, the muffin man,O do you know the muffin man,That lives in Drury Lane?

There was no need for a term like 'magical thinking' in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.

In 1960 the US Census reported that 9 per cent of children lived in a family with one parent; by 2010 this had increased to 27 per cent. In the UK today, there is a similar proportion:

a splendid treat for the Mexican children who came weekly in school busses from the north end of town.

They can see the character, standing before them. The voice became iconic in its own right. Parents often ask me to do it for their children, who don't quite believe them. After all, any old man can claim to be the guy inside the gold suit and kids are rightly skeptical. 'Hello, I am See-Threepio, human-cyborg relations.' Then I see the magic. I watch as the sound enters their ears, it reaches their brain, it gets processed in moments. And suddenly. Smiles of recognition - and love.

Do you want to be happy? Uninterrupted happiness is uncaused. True happiness is uncaused. You cannot make me happy. You are not my happiness. You say to the awakened person, "Why are you happy?" and the awakened person replies, "Why not?" Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.

Repentance, the refashioning of the heart has begun and the kingdom of God—the gratefully carefree life of children—has come within your grasp at last and you are about to reach out and take possession of it.

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light.

So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.

Whoever says adults are better at paying attention than children is wrong: we're too busying filtering out the world, focusing on some task or another, paying no attention. Our kids are the ones discovering new contents all day long.

So really, children, mathematically, all the light is invisible

Como chamamos a luz visível? Chamamos de cor. Mas o espectro eletromagnético corre ao zero em uma direção e ao infinito na outra, então, na verdade, crianças, matematicamente, toda luz é invisível.