Make Children Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and… — G. Stanley Hall
I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children. — Richard Dawson
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet… — Bell Hooks
You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow. — Dudley Nichols
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. — Ogden Nash
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? — Jane Nelsen
Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the… — Alfie Kohn
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. — Bernard Cornwell
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be… — Cressida Cowell
And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And… — Richard Dawson
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply… — Steven Pinker
The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world. — Maurice Saatchi
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love… — Ellen G. White
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. — Oscar Wilde
So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear.… — Andrea Dworkin
When Iâ€™m a Duchess,â€ she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), â€œI wonâ€™t have any pepper in my kitchen at all.… — Lewis Carroll
Because youâ€™re the one. Because Iâ€™ve never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a… — Nora Roberts
It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the… — Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

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