Children Quote by Seanan McGuire

“The trouble with denying children the freedom to be themselves—with forcing them into an idea of what they should be, not allowing them to…

— Seanan McGuire

“Parenting isn’t about creating someone in your own image; it’s about giving them the clay to shape themselves as they see fit, and celebrating…

— Mikki Brammer

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled…

— Giorgio Vasari

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and…

— Steve Martin

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to…

— Jerry Pinkney

“I am convinced that an immense number of people who have children should not have them, and do not particularly want them, except as…

— Sydney J. Harris

In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with…

— Betty Edwards

I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“So our job as parents is not to make a particular kind of child. Instead, our job is to provide a protected space of…

— Alison Gopnik

“out of arrogance, of laziness, or the shallow notion that modern, freethinking parents ought to allow children to decide these things for themselves, we’d…

— Brian Gresko

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

— Jonah Lehrer

“Each child holds the World in an open hand to mould it into any shape they choose...”

— Laura Crean