L. Frank Baum Quotes

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

...why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

My kids, they're my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.

I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.