Child Quote by Alessandra Torre

“It is children's desire to be good for us that warrants our trust, not their ability to perform to our expectations.”

— Gabor Maté

“Our actions speak louder than our words with the young child, who cannot help but imitate. Through us, children learn whether or not their…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy

“evolution doesn’t have much interest in protecting us anymore because we’re less likely to have—or be able to bear—children.”

— David B. Agus

“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”

— Hermann Broch

“Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they…

— Doris Lessing

“A child's instincts are often the most honest.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy

“There are many ways to knock a child’s confidence, and none of them justifiable.”

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is valuable for…

— Richard Dawkins

“Human nature is a vast impenetrable forest which no one can know in its entirety. Not even a mother knows her child’s deepest secrets.”

— Jo Nesbø

“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured--emotionally and intellectually--respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. Especially, most essentially, by themselves.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“Some primal instinct tells the parent, or the person down on their luck, than if we let it go — the child's hand, or…

— Bobby Underwood