Children Quote by E. M. Delafield

Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the…

— David Elkind

“These were wise, modern children, and they knew: a mother could be a witch, a child could be a criminal. A librarian could be…

— Rebecca Makkai

[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own…

— C. Sommerville

“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a little humiliated,…

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay…

— George Will

“What modern parents need to keep in mind is that they are competing with the social media. A phenomenon where having small conversations with…

— M. Conley

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

— Albert Camus

“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”

— Tirumala

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

— Henry Steele Commager

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

— Oscar Wilde

“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”

— André Gide