Agnes Repplier Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Children, Thinking

• Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

• Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Cat, Adults

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

• By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Reading, Parent

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

• It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

  Agnes Repplier

  Education, Brother, Children

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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