Children Quotes

Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Eleanor Farjeon

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

Fran Lebowitz

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.

Dan Pursuit

If a child lives with approval he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

Robert Browning

What's done to children they will do to society.

Karl Menninger

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Fred Astaire

Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.

Goethe

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.

Hodding Carter

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

St. Francis Xavier

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Erik Erikson

Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold S. Hulbert

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.

Carl Jung

Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

John Holt

A child's a plaything for an hour.

Mary Lamb

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Mason Cooley

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why he does.

Chinese Proverb

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God the family angels devils witches goblins logic clarity punctuation and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Igor Stravinsky

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Benjamin Franklin

If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.

Goethe

What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood' but only to be loved even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.

Carl Zucker

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Erik Erikson

William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Maurice Sendak

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

Bible

When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.

Bible

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Sorcha MacMurrough

Children are angels.

Lailah Gifty Akita

- How does it feel to have a daughter?- At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.

Clarice Lispector

It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.

Caitlin Moran

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper “One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality.

L.R. Knost

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

Daniel J. Siegel

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

Marty Rubin

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

Enid Blyton

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

Wess Stafford

The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable; their doors are flimsy pieces of plyboard or sacks hanging and lank. Children and chickens and dogs scratch in the red, raw soil and stare at us as we drive through their open, eroding lives.

Alexandra Fuller

But mostly because he could be himself - never needing to bend.

Niki Alling

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

Janosch

These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themselves as follows: "My highest aim in life is to achieve a normal healthy marriage and raise healthy [non-neurotic] children." On the face of it, this remark is preposterous. What was always taken as a usual and advantageous life-condition for work in the world and the service of God, is now regarded as an heroic goal to be striven for. Yet we see that it is a hard goal to achieve against the modern obstacles. Also it is a real goal, with objective problems that a man can work at personally, and take responsibility for, and make decisions about—unlike the interpersonal relations of the corporation, or the routine of the factory job for which the worker couldn't care less.But now, suppose the young man is achieving this goal: he has the wife, the small kids, the suburban home, and the labor-saving domestic devices. How is it that it is the same man who uniformly asserts that he is in a Rat Race? Either the goal does not justify itself, or indeed he is not really achieving it. Perhaps the truth is, if marriage and children are the goal, a man cannot really achieve it. It is not easy to conceive of a strong husband and father who does not justified in his work and independent in the world. Correspondingly, his wife feels justified in the small children, but does she have a man, do the children have a father, if he is running a Rat Race? Into what world do the small children grow up in such a home?

Paul Goodman

. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents. Then the shouting and the struggling, and the onslaught that was made on the defenceless porter! Then scaling him, with chairs for ladders, to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round the neck, pommel his back and kick his legs in irrepressible affection! The shouts of wonder and delight with wich the development of every package was received! The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy! They are indescribable alike. It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlor, and by one stair at a time up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided.

Charles Dickens

Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they were born. I hope they will always realize how much they are loved and valued. I feel so blessed that they are in my life.

Tom Giaquinto

So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. "It must be a free child," they said to each other. "It must not be a child standing still all its life on a street corner. Yes, if we have a child she mist be free to run across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. Yes, it must be a free child."So time passed on. Their child came. It was a railroad train, the Golden Spike Limited, the fastest long distance train in the Rootabaga Country. It ran across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea.

Carl Sandburg

Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband and wife, who love each other, can see each other in one single face.

Georges Rodenbach

As children, a great number of us were taught by our parents, carers, extended family members, and teachers, that showing any form of emotional vulnerability was “not OK.” We were conditioned to believe that in order to be acceptable as human beings, we had to be like the other children. We were taught to “suck it up,” “stop being cry babies,” “get thicker skin,” “stop being so sensitive” and go participate with the other kids, even if they overwhelmed us with their energy.

Mateo Sol

Life - with or without softener- is hard

Kate Papas

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Arthur Golden

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.

Paul Tough

When it comes to the education of our young, this privilege should only be given to those whose visions are solely in the uplifting benefit of the child. There is no room for the ego in the education of children! Children should not be looked after, nor educated, by those who have not made a sacrifice within their hearts, laying down their own personal agenda and dreams, for the total ascension of the child. Even if you are to educate the children simply sitting under a tree; if you have the vision and the heart of a sage, those children will grow to be mighty men and women under your watch! And even if you wine and dine the children, putting them up in a palace; if you do not have the vision and the selfless heart of a sage, all you do is in utter vanity!

C. JoyBell C.

...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?

John Geddes

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