“The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.”

“For the poor children who are hungry. For the rich children who are sad.”

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”

“For all for children
To whom we entrust the future”

“They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.”

“Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.”

“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.”

“There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.”

“Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.”

“For the women who mourn their dead in the secret night,
For the children taught to keep quiet, the old children,
The children spat-on at school.
For the wrecked laboratory,
The gutted house, the dunged picture, the pissed-in well
The naked corpse of Knowledge flung in the square
And no man lifting a hand and no man speaking.”