I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to… — Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib Copy Share Image
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Children don't know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I do sometimes stop and think. I mean, I'm 62 now and I've got a child on my shoulders and he could… — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Children raised with respect and inner direction tend to play well in groups, at times quite peacefully, each involved in her own… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
“It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“Friends are more than your special loved ones – in certain cases. Because of their support in certain matters, you get inspired.… — Jonathan Page Acabo Copy Share Image
My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many… — Louis Bacon Copy Share Image
Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“He has always been obedient, which is a sign of intelligence in a child because it shows you understand that your elders… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so… — Plato Copy Share Image
This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
“Expecting the best and demanding the best are two different things. The difference is our reaction. Our children need to know that… — M. Conley Copy Share Image
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what… — John Ross Bowie Copy Share Image
“A child's body is so much a part of who they are; maybe because we can hold a little boy in our… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
“Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble. —Bobby Goodspeed” — James Howe Copy Share Image
I don't think you should bring up your kids with no wallowing. Somewhere in there is an area where you make sure… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible. — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
“One of the most generous gifts you can give your child is to study her temperament, and once you've learned it, work… — Wendy Mogel Copy Share Image
and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated mind could count, and unlike the celebrated poem, not every forty children… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first… — Paul R. Hill Copy Share Image
