“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children… — Beck Copy Share Image
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either.… — Ellen J. Kullman Copy Share Image
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” —James Baldwin” — Wendy Jo Peterson Copy Share Image
The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don't have to push things away mentally... If we… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“How do you choose between your kids and your parents? I feel like we're all just a bunch of vikings, moving around… — Joe Coomer Copy Share Image
I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s,… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young… — James L Hymes Copy Share Image
“Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful, rigorous way is better.… — Lori McWilliam Pickert Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
“Several families had obnoxious kids bouncing off the walls. In this case, "bouncing off the walls" is not just a figure of… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“Adults think children are oblivious to their surroundings I think; as if we are blind and stupid until we blurt out something… — Shiree McCarver Copy Share Image
I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
“On occasion, it occurs to adults that they are allowed to do all the things that being a child prevented them from… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded… — David Chang Copy Share Image
Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
To any child, the first occupations that are presented to you are your parents'. I was appealed to my dad's occupation from… — Gustaf Skarsgard Copy Share Image
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting… — Ian Gomez Copy Share Image
Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Parenting is the toughest job on earth as you are responsible for the physical, emotional & mental development of another human being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keep a check on your children, but do not force them to do something you wanted to do, or what you wish… — Bhuvan Bam Copy Share Image
Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way.… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the… — John Art Copy Share Image
There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“Think of it as affirmative brainwashing. The more you articulate your child’s strengths and gifts, the more both of you grow to… — Ellen Notbohm Copy Share Image
