Children Quote by Nathaniel Branden

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

— Nadine Gordimer

“If a child connects being hurt with being bad, weak, unable to cope, or constantly surrounded by threat, there is no room left for…

— Deepak Chopra

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the…

— Melanie Klein

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an…

— Prentice Mulford

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

— Melanie Klein

“When children are hurt and in pain psychologically, they don't want to be in distress, so when the situation becomes intolerable, they cease to…

— Robert W. Firestone

“The terrors ingrained in a child went deeper than any anxiety acquired as an adult. The fear bred itself right into growing bones, mellowed…

— Anne McAneny

“As with a child, the mind of an adult is predisposed for destruction in the name of self-awareness. The question you may then ask…

— Robin Sacredfire

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of to-day - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I…

— Pierre Loti

For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that…

— Maxine Greene

A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance,…

— E. M. Delafield

“As parents move from defensive processes to increased empathy for their children, the children's attachment security increases. Thus, on one side we have the…

— Daniel J. Siegel, M.D