Children Quote by Muriel Wace

What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a…

— Miss Read

Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the…

— David Elkind

The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and…

— Thomas Merton

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of…

— Maurice Sendak

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

— L. Frank Baum

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

We are working hard to ensure every child fulfils their potential and goes on to seize all the opportunities life can offer them. If…

— Gavin Williamson

“What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face: and that is…

— Robertson Davies

“Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary…

— Heather Choate Davis

“The Complexities Of Life Caused By Bad Government Administration, Leadership, Parental Abuse And Mistakes Can Make A Child More Matured Than Their Age. It…

— Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

“To a child, whatever is being done by adults is good and worth imitating. Many children have embraced societal vices as they emulated adults,…

— Benjamin Nzuki