The Living Canvas: Part 2 - Portraits of Children

these are the days of miracle and wonder - Paul Simon

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet
we forget that he is someone today.-Stacia Tauscher

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.
There are seven million. -Walt Streightiff

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights,
before the dark hour of reason grows.-John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What!
Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?
Never in his life will he be so busy again. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

Children make you want to start life over. -Muhammad Ali

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt

We could never have loved the earth so well
if we had had no childhood in it. -George Elliot

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Ah! What would the world be to us
If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Children find everything in nothing,
men find nothing in everything. -Giacomo Leopardi

There is a garden in every childhood,
an enchanted place where
colors are brighter, the air softer
and the morning more fragrant
then ever again.
– Elizabeth Lawrence