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I think the arts are very important for children growing up. -- Stephen Schwartz
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child. -- Lady Gregory
Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection. -- Sam Trammell
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult. -- Maria Montessori
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa. -- Noam Chomsky
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child. -- Coretta Scott King
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future. -- Margaret Mead
The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder. -- John Garrett
My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest in all of East Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque. -- Rula Jebreal
As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true. -- Tiger Woods
The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan. -- Erik Erikson
If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children growing up or parents having to struggle in situations which could not possibly nourish healthy growth. -- Stanley Greenspan
As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting. -- Robin G. Collingwood
With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It's not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well... -- Ruben Papian
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt. -- Johnny Cash
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true. -- Salman Rushdie
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. -- Simon Beaufoy
Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life. -- Werner Herzog
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. -- Alice Walker
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only! -- Henry David Thoreau
I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home and listen to my grandfather tell stories as he smoked one of three daily cigars.One of the things my grandfather instilled in me, was that I was really blessed because I was a citizen of the greatest country in the history of our mankind. -- Marco Rubio
What interests me is what children go through while growing up. -- Beverly Cleary
Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children. -- Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children? -- Caroline Paul
I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children. -- Jim Ryun
Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little. -- Heidi Klum
That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model. -- Mary Badham
I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot. -- Billy Graham
It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it. -- Alice Waters
We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up. -- LZ Granderson
You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books. -- St. Lucia
Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives. -- Arne Duncan
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually. -- Amy Grant
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me. -- David Boreanaz
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. -- J. B. Priestley
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up. -- Kate Forsyth
Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer. -- Victor Garber
If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it. -- Julianne Nicholson
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts. -- John Mahoney
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up. -- James Dobson
One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing. -- Chesley Sullenberger
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child. -- Hans Rosling
Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies. -- Sarah Silverman
Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing. -- George Meredith
When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need. -- Michelle Monaghan
The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping. -- Lucy Larcom
When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting. -- Josh Turner
A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms. -- Julia Child
A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't. -- Suzanne Fields
Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people. -- Paul Gillmor
The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week. -- Ezra Taft Benson

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