Children Quote by Charles Lamb

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

— Maurice Sendak

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

— Lev Grossman

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

— Camille Paglia

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

— Blake Lively

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

— Nick Nolte

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

— Clark Moustakas

For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that…

— Maxine Greene

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

— Jeffrey Wright

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

— Dennis Prager

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a…

— Clare Balding

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an…

— Roald Dahl

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.

— Rebecca Goldstein