Charlotte Bronte

“It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.  The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half-an-hour elapsed and still I was alone.”

--Charlotte Bronte

Betty Pearson

[Children] don't need to be entertained by [their parents]. In fact, it is harmful for their development to be constantly spoon-fed and entertained. In order to discover their talents and interests, they must search within themselves, and they can't do this if they are constantly being bombarded with stimuli. Avoid the temptation to plug in an electronic game or video to entertain them. There are times when watching videos are helpful and educational, but don't use the TV to eliminate boredom.

--Betty Pearson

Joyce Kinmont

The idea that children must spend great quantities of time in same-age groups is a theory of man and has no basis in fact or scripture. Actually, large groups of undirected children tend to become trivia-oriented, mean-spirited and competitive. Home schooled children are not isolated; they merely have their socializing within the family and within the social groups chosen by the family.
--Joyce Kinmont

Joyce Kinmont

"I see our children as young tender plants put into a hot house, given expert attention and care by a florist, until the plant is ready to be exposed to the wind, rain, and hail."
--Joyce Kinmont

L.M. Montgomery

“One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”

― L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

“There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”

― L.M. Montgomery

James Garfield

If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

-- James A Garfield