Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to…

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when…

— Helen Keller

You cannot force a child to use their limbs if they're in pain.

— Jesse White

“This means that everything the child must use in taking care of himself must be in proportion to his size and ability; the hook…

— Paula Polk Lillard

We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.

— Jean Parker

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

— Virginia Woolf

“And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea…

— Aldous Huxley

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us…but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?”

— J.G. Farrell

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

— Lydia M. Child

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe,…

— Alexander Hamilton

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's…

— Merle Haggard

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

— William Golding