Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
~ Erik Erikson
William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
~ Maurice Sendak
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
~ Bible
When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
~ Joseph Joubert
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
~ Aldous Huxley
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
~ Eleanor Farjeon
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.
~ James Baldwin
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
~ Fran Lebowitz
All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.
~ Dan Pursuit
If a child lives with approval he learns to live with himself.
~ Dorothy Law Nolte
Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.
~ Robert Browning
What's done to children they will do to society.
~ Karl Menninger
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
~ Fred Astaire
Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.
~ Goethe
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
~ Christopher Morley
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.
~ Hodding Carter
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
~ St. Francis Xavier
There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
~ Benjamin Spock
Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
~ Don Herold
Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.
~ Harold S. Hulbert
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
~ Rachel Carson
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.
~ Carl Jung
Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.
~ John Holt
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.
~ Jessie J
My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.
~ Mark Billingham
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
~ Carol Vorderman
My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
~ Ben Elliot
Audiences like me doing action and comedy. I am a jovial person and have been so from childhood. I like to laugh my way through my work, and that attitude reflects in my roles. Even women hate me doing rona-dhona roles. So I don't do emotional films.
~ Ravi Teja
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.
~ Mariella Frostrup
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
~ Peter Diamandis
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.
~ Michael Leunig
I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams.
All my childhood dreams have come true.
~ Lucas Till
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
~ Bonnie Hunt
My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
~ Zach Anner
