Children Quotes

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Stacia Tauscher

Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Thomas J. Cottle

In early infancy, the baby tends to experience herself andher mother as one, a union. If the mother responds attentively and empathetically to the infant, a life-sustaining function is provided which is felt to be part of thebaby

Andrew P. Morrison, The Culture

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: Never hurt anybody.

Denis Breeze

When I approach a child He inspires in me two sentiments:Tenderness for what he is,And respect for what he may become.Chaque enfant r

Louis Pasteur

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Graham Greene

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Beatrix Campbell

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Sir Walter Besant

What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.

Yehudi Menuhin

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Ellen Key

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.

J.K. Rowling

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Alice Meynell