Children Quote by Jeff Foxworthy

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

— Hector Hugh Munro

Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some…

— Judith Viorst

If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate…

— Stanley Greenspan

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

— LZ Granderson

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

— Lucille Ball

Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not very good…

— Otto Weininger

You get those couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as…

— Rosamund Pike

“We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.”

— Bruce D. Perry

We can't have children growing up feeling unloved - the price is too high for that.

— Angela Rayner

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from…

— Marge M. Kennedy

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

— Ellen Goodman