“Toy balloon
once kidnapped by the wind —
come home, and I will say:
There are no children here.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Still Life with a Balloon"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Calling Out to Yeti (1957)
The Chanukah Song.
“Toy balloon
once kidnapped by the wind —
come home, and I will say:
There are no children here.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Still Life with a Balloon"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Calling Out to Yeti (1957)
Cornstalk (1720–1777) Native American in the American Revolution
Plan of attack at the Muddy Creek Massacre.
Meindert DeJong book The Wheel on the School
The Wheel on the School (1954)
“We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.”
Mort Sahl (1927–2021) American comedian and actor
Relationships
“I always knew children were anti-social. But the children of the West Side - they're savage.”
Marc Connelly (1890–1980) American playwright
Quote in: Otto Penzler The Vicious Circle (2007) p. 18
Voices offstage: a book of memoirs, (1968)
“The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.”
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
On his years in the White House, in On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys and Girls (1962)
“They say that God protects drunks and children. I would add young morons to that list.”
Fred Thompson (1942–2015) American politician and actor
Teaching the Pig to Dance
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
Charles Lamb book Essays of Elia
The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple.
Essays of Elia (1823)