Child Quote by Brigham Young

“Children are amazing beings and it is we who shall try to imitate them and not the other way around.”

— Lone Dybkjær

“As if you could ever protect your children from what life might bring their way. Or even from themselves and their impulses.”

— Terry Brooks

“Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time”

— Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib

“Prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled;...As obedient children, do not conform to the”

— Beth Moore

“If you forbid [children] from doing what is natural , they will seek it out later in ways that are unnatural and perverse.”

— Debra Ollivier

“Inevitably, our children come to see us as we are. Not as we wish we were, or even as we should be.”

— Michael Perry

“We must trust that what we're doing has a purpose. We must realize that we're not here to make kids conform or perform, but…

— Tom Walsh

“We must not imitate that which we seek to create.”

— Georges Braque

“Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.”

— Gordon Neufeld

“Must we not protect children with all we are? And so the future.”

— David Clement-Davies

“People can do whatever they want. It's when they conform to society that they restrict themselves.”

— Erin Pracht

“Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.”

— Madeline Levine