"... what is there over which the..." - Quote by George Sand
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
More by George Sand
“We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.”
“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
“A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.”
More on Childhood
“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”
“You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.”
“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.”
More on Innocence
“Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".”
“We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.”
“The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.”