Gadsby

Book by Ernest Vincent Wright · 3 quotes · Gadsby, Childhood, Ernest Vincent Wright

Browse quotes from Gadsby.

Book detail: Gadsby is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.

Browse quotes from Gadsby.

The quotes below use the same card format as the rest of the site, including topics, source notes, copy actions, image creation, and sharing controls.

Filter quotes by topic

All Gadsby Childhood Ernest Vincent Wright Love Abuse Adulthood Animal Animals Boys Care Children Corruption Cuddling Daughter Discipline Father Girls Gossip Government Growing

Gadsby Quotes

“If you can’t find any fun during childhood, you naturally won’t look for it as you grow up to maturity. You will grow ‘hard,’ and look upon fun as foolish. Also, if you don’t furnish fun for a child, don’t look for it to grow up bright, happy and loving. So, always put in a child’s path an opportunity to watch, talk about, and know, as many good things as you can.”

Growing Childhood Adulthood Gadsby

Book:Gadsby

Source: Gadsby

“Now this is a most satisfactory and important thing to think about, for brutality will not,—cannot,—accomplish what a kindly disposition will; and, if folks could only know how quickly a “balky” child will, through loving and cuddling, grow into a charming, happy youth, much childish gloom and sorrow would vanish; for a man or woman who is ugly to a child is too low to rank as highly as a wild animal; for no animal will stand, for an instant, anything approaching an attack, or any form of harm to its young. But what a lot of tots find slaps, yanks and hard words for conditions which do not call for such harsh tactics! No child is naturally ugly or “cranky.” And big, gulping sobs, or sad, unhappy young minds, in a tiny body should not occur in any community of civilization. Adulthood holds many an opportunity for such conditions. Childhood should not.”

Children Parent Childhood Discipline Abuse Parenting Gadsby Ernest Vincent Wright

Book:Gadsby

Source: Gadsby

“Youth!! Ah, what a word!! And how transitory! But, how grand! as long as it lasts. How many millions in gold would pour out for an ability to call it all back, as with our musical myth, Faust. During that magic part of a child’s growth this world is just a gigantic inquiry box, containing many a topic for which a solution is paramount to a growing mind. And to whom can a child look, but us adults? Any man who “can’t stop now” to talk with a child upon a topic which, to him is“too silly for anything,” should look back to that day upon which that topic was dark and dubious in his own brain. A child who asks nothing will know nothing. That is why that “bump of inquiry” was put on top of our skulls.”

Knowledge Childhood Youth Gadsby

Book:Gadsby

Source: Gadsby