Children Quote by David Rakoff

“For some parents, having children meant full absolution from any future mistakes. My father wouldn't permit himself to be wrong. He shifted the blame…

— Amber Dermont

“Our respect is such that we assume that children will try to fix their error and make better decisions next time.”

— Peter H. Johnston

“Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Tell me, storyteller, what is the greatest mistake a parent can make? -To believe that your children will be just like you”

— Michael Scott

“A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up." "But though it may…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

No Child Should Ever Be Referred To As A Mistake..

— Anonymous

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in…

— Anonymous

“The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn’t know and couldn’t do.”

— Alison Gopnik

“Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but…

— François Fénelon

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad…

— C.S. Lewis

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

“Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults”

— Harper Lee