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Children Quotes (page 13)

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt quote: "Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when..."
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy. Donna Tartt
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. Marian Wright Edelman
Ogden Nash quote: "Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what..."
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. Ogden Nash
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived. Michael Jackson
James A. Baldwin quote: "Children have never been very good at listening to their..."
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James A. Baldwin
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. Russell Baker
Francis Bacon quote: "Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter."
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. Francis Bacon
Joan of Arc quote: "Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the..."
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. Joan of Arc
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. David Antin
Maya Angelou quote: "Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of..."
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Maya Angelou
Careful the things you say, Children will listen. Careful the things you do, Children will see. And learn. Children may not obey. But children will listen. Children will look to you. For which way to turn, To learn what to be. Careful before you say,"Listen to me."Children will listen. Stephen Sondheim
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are... Frederick Buechner
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.' Richard Dawkins
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. Thomas Szasz

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