Children Quote by K.L. Slater

“In growing older, we become our parents.”

— Julien Green

“Our role as parents is to help our kids figure out exactly what they care about enough to get it done while overcoming the…

— Lee David Daniels

“We achieve some measure of adulthood when we recognize our parents as they really were, without sentimentalizing or mythologizing, but also without blaming them…

— Carl Sagan Ann Druyan

“Adults like to say that childhood passes quickly, that it's over in the blink of an eye. I can't agree. When you become an…

— Sergey Grechishkin

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become.”

— Peggy Toney Horton

“I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an…

— Ben Sasse

“part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.”

— Matthew Kelly

“If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents…

— Jean Sasson

With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater…

— Wendy Lustbader

“Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.”

— Michelle McKinney Hammond

“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing and history.…

— Tim Kreider