If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. Kate Douglas Wiggin More Quotes by Kate Douglas Wiggin More Quotes From Kate Douglas Wiggin You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with. Kate Douglas Wiggin vicesmayfacts Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues. Kate Douglas Wiggin childhoodhuemade It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet. Kate Douglas Wiggin riversmorningbook The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the middle of May, and Mr. Jeremiah Cobb was favoring the horses as much as possible, yet never losing sight of the fact that he carried the mail. The hills were many, and the reins lay loosely in his hands as he lolled back in his seat and extended one foot and leg luxuriously over the dashboard. His brimmed hat of worn felt was well pulled over his eyes, and revolved a quid of tobacco in his left cheek. Kate Douglas Wiggin horserunningbook To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life. Kate Douglas Wiggin blessednamesbaby One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas. Kate Douglas Wiggin bedorganizationideas The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. Kate Douglas Wiggin cheerinspirationbeautiful There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children. Kate Douglas Wiggin sometimeschildrenpeople A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named. Kate Douglas Wiggin realbaby When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon. Kate Douglas Wiggin wish
