A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola. — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood.… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son… — Lydia Hoyt Farmer Copy Share Image
But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm… — John Keble Copy Share Image
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
