It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people. — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her. — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that. — Juicy J Copy Share Image
Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when… — Ted Cook Copy Share Image
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“once a willful child who, like many willful children, felt most secure at home, has grown into an extravagantly social and nonconforming… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
By learning to yield to the loving authority... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
I hate when parents write quotes about how much they love their kids, how they would do anything for their kids, they… — Christina Love Copy Share Image
“So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad… — Rebecca Eanes Copy Share Image
The kind of boy's club I'm used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, 'I'm sensitive… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Some people say that parents don't matter, and that's not true at all. The irony is that we pay attention to all… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of… — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. — Alphonse Daudet Copy Share Image
The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors. — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I swear that child has more energy than a hummingbird on sweet tea.” — Nancy Naigle Copy Share Image
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
About children's caregivers ... you want someone who is loving but not so loving you're displaced. — Kathleen Christensen Copy Share Image
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Practice makes perfect. How many times have parents uttered those words to encourage their children ¦? — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child? — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness. — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too. — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
