Children Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

— Michel de Montaigne

I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

— bell hooks

But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying,…

— Doris Lessing

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

— Plato

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

— Andrew Solomon

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

— Patti Smith

Children need people in order to become human… It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

— Jill Paton Walsh

We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.

— Dean Devlin

You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed…

— Cyndi Lauper

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

— Anna Quindlen