Children Quote by Elinor Smith

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Something you consider bad may bring out your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

My husband and I believe that if you treat a child well and nurture his talent and physical ability, in a healthy environment, the…

— Dominique Moceanu

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment…

— John B. S. Haldane

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

— Luther Burbank

No child is bad from the beginning, they only imitate their atmosphere.

— Prince

No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere.

— Prince

“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

— Greg Smith

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

— Terry McMillan