Dictionary of Quotations [antikvár]

Cfiildren Cfiildhood Jane Austen On every formai visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. Sense and Sensibility Sir J(ames) M(atthew) Barrie When the first baby laughed for the fírst time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of the fairies. Peter Pan Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. Ibid Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. San Francisco News Letter 1869 George Gordon (Noel), 6th Lord Byron A little curly-headed good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. Don Jüan Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Through the Looking-Glass and WhatAlice Found There Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. Radio broadcast, 1943