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Children Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have…
- Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
- The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but…
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
- Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
- Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and…
- Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived…
- God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.
- Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is…
- But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not…
- To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
- Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real…
- Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age…
- God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and…
- I was with book, as a woman is with child.
- A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
- And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and…
- I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I…
- He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it…
- Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you…
- Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's…
- He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
- And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came…
- Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
- But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon