Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes about Children

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

God, Baby, Children

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Happiness, Children, Memories

Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1892). “Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic”

The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Appreciation, Children, Fall

the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Children, Memories, Wine

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Children, People, Sometimes

Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes about Children

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