Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes about Children

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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Children, Kindness, Flower

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.104

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Children, Flower, Sun

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.104

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Mother, Children, Heart