Ability Quote by Urie Bronfenbrenner

All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be…

— Rudolf Steiner

“When a child's needs are not met (because they conflict with those of its caretakers), the child's boundaries become defined by the needs of…

— Joel Friedman

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their…

— Maria Montessori

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full…

— Rachel Carson

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.

— Ayobami Adebayo

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like…

— Gerry Spence

In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

— Graca Machel

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated…

— Viola Spolin

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton