Child Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

— Maurice Saatchi

“parenting matters, even to the extent of influencing our inborn and genetically shaped temperament.”

— Daniel J. Siegel

“Infants who are temperamentally easygoing and affable raise their parents very differently than those who are cranky and tense.”

— Brian R. Little

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

— George Herbert

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very…

— Robert Winston

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a…

— Stella Chess

But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite…

— Penelope Lively

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

— Samuel Johnson

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the…

— Jessica Valenti

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims'…

— Max Stirner

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall…

— Ellen G. White