I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las…

“Do not wish your life away, " Grandfather would tell her. "None of us know the number of days we are allotted. It would…

— Tracie Peterson

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall…

— John Garrett

“Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised…

— Enid Bagnold

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

— Mike Huckabee

“Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.”

— Mitch Albom

As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper…

— Lewis H. Lapham

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up

— Walt Disney

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to…

— Jonathan Lethem

If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate…

— Stanley Greenspan

... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part…

— Julia Lathrop

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of…

— Robin G. Collingwood

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

— Maria Montessori

The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is…

— Erik Erikson

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay