Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. — Beverly Cleary
Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one… — Thomas Jones
However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you. — John Buchanan Robinson
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. — Ellen Key
Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for… — Robert Herrick
Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea. — Marianne Williamson
As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers… — Judy Biggert
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise. With your wife,… — Rajneesh
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much… — Oliver Goldsmith
Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know that others have… — Rajneesh
Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees. — Rajneesh
Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying. — Rajneesh
The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him more. Appreciate what… — Rajneesh
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple… — Rajneesh
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers,… — Rajneesh
Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this… — Rajneesh
The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country… — Rajneesh
Every child is born with tremendous love for himself. It is the society that destroys that love, it is the religion that destroys that love… — Rajneesh
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they start trapping it… — Rajneesh
The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it… — Rajneesh
During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture,… — Rajneesh
Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner, Delgado and others… — Rajneesh
Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems… — Rajneesh
Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going… — Rajneesh

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