Children Quote by Ellen Key

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be…

— Sandra Scarr

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the…

— Mary McCarthy

The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“what society feeds us as youth and how it comes back and bites them later,”

— Angie Thomas

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

— Neil Postman

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

— Brennan Manning

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if…

— Midge Decter

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Recall that this is the first time that America truly had a “generation gap,” a chasm between parents and children. In previous generations, children…

— Dinesh D'Souza

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

— M. Scott Peck

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is…

— Stella Chess