Children Quotes

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Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

- Michael Levine

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It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

- Frederick Douglass

On the first day of school, my children said to me, "Aren't you glad that our education's free?"

- Erma Bombeck

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

- Anne Sullivan

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

- Marshall Rosenberg

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indeed -- judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgments, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

- Emma Thompson

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

- Alice Miller

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

- Robert Fulghum

Do not despair, every new born baby is a potential prophet.

- R. D. Laing

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become,

- James Baldwin

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

- Anne Sullivan

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

- Alice Miller

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

- Phyllis Diller

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Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

- Emma Thompson

Hitler, Stalin, Mao and other dictators were exposed to severe physical mistreatment in childhood and refused to face up to the fact later. Instead of seeing and feeling what had happened to them, they avenged themselves vicariously by killing millions of people. And millions of others helped them to do so.

- Alice Miller

The first half of our lives is spoiled by our parents, and the last half by our children.

- Jennifer James

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The claim that mild punishments (slaps or smacks) have no detrimental effect is still widespread because we got this message very early from our parents who had taken it over from their own parents. Unfortunately, the main damage it causes is precisely the broad dissemination of this conviction. The result of which is that each successive generation is subjected to the tragic effects of so called physical "correction."

- Alice Miller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Phyllis Diller

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

- Alice Miller