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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. -- Barbara Walters
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction. -- W. H. Auden
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. -- Michael Jackson
What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love. -- Maria Montessori
It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will. -- Malcolm Cowley
The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline. -- Jackie Chan
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. -- Thomas Szasz
My life, like most people's, has been negatively affected by cancer, and the thought of my young children living in an age where this is no longer humanity's No. 1 health fear was simply overpowering. -- Shane Smith
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults. -- Melanie Klein
I just think we can't do enough of this [student exchanges]... And when you get young children traveling internationally, I think they come back different people. And you can't put a price tag - you can't put a value on that. -- Arne Duncan
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. -- Temple Grandin
Ain is a marvelous purifier... It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely. -- James Dobson
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless -- Isabella MacDonald Alden
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning. -- David Elkind
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play. -- Erik Erikson
We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water - if very young children don't begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories. -- Elise M. Boulding
The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future. -- Fred Rogers
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle. -- William S. Burroughs
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. -- David O. McKay
I enjoy helping young children succeed. -- William Hung
Young children are such nasty little beasts! -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
If young children boo me, that makes my day. -- Tom Felton
Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives. -- Keith Henson
Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes. -- Carol S. Dweck
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. -- Martha Beck
We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people. -- Barack Obama
I would not let my children act when they are young! -- Keri Russell
We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril. -- Bruce D. Perry
Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal. -- Jonathan Kozol
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate. -- Tom T. Hall
Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved. -- Lindsay Davenport
I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children. -- Merle Haggard
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children. -- Bob Dylan
I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own. -- Natasha Richardson
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety. -- Anne Enright
I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously. -- Albert Pujols
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible. -- T.H. White
Young children especially need the visual reinforcement of seeing you turn to Scripture for wisdom. -- Kara Durbin
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. -- Roger Ascham
Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. -- Kate Adie
when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do. -- Vicki Baum
Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning. -- Jo Brand
I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need. -- Lauren Conrad
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. -- Dora Russell
When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control. -- Amy Chua
As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things. -- Coco Chanel
The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. -- Noah Webster
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. -- Eleanor Catton
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children. -- Francis Crick
I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. -- Gretchen Rubin
When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped. -- Helena Bonham Carter
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. -- Kris Kristofferson
Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda. -- Peter Woo
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams. -- Hanna Rosin
Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial. -- Henry Giroux
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them. -- Rita Rudner
Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage. -- Miep Gies
When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car. -- Laurie Graham
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me. -- Val Kilmer
Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago. -- Robert Bateman
The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate. -- Amy Walter
If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough. -- Eric Braeden
I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young. -- Eve Bunting
There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help. -- Siri Hustvedt
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. -- Criss Jami
People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul -- Jeannette Walls
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. -- Helen Fisher
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die. -- Jeff Shaara
I want to have young children although my mother and father are even now young sufficient to just take care of them. -- Rita Rudner
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing, -- Alison Gopnik
Hillary Clinton has held vast dreams. She was inspired at a young age that society does well when women and children do. -- Tim Kaine
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well. -- Jonathan Carroll
I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young. -- Jane Asher
Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young. -- Jaclyn Smith
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing. -- Alison Gopnik
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. -- G. Stanley Hall
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good. -- George Eliot
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.' -- Richard Dawkins
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart. -- Voltaire
The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. -- Evan Esar
Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two. -- Walter Mosley
We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young. -- T.I.
We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young. -- Henry B. Eyring
Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide. -- Lilian Katz
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul. -- Plato
We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth. -- Mabel Robinson
A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation -- Albert Bandura
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion. -- Diane Duane
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. -- Oscar Wilde
The Lourie Center...is a national pioneer in developing and applying early intervention techniques to diagnose and treat emotional and developmental problems in young children... -- Connie Morella
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe. -- Roald Dahl
It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults. -- Darren Shan
Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight -- Renee Ahdieh
If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration. -- Daniel Greenberg
As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness. -- L. Ron Hubbard
I think it's really important to teach our children about their lineage and it especially makes a difference if you share that information while they're young. -- Aeriel Miranda
We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent. -- Oliver Sacks
O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet. -- Alice Meynell
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
It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children. -- Alan Alda
As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them. -- Plutarch
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives. -- Charles Hamilton Houston
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days. -- Danielle de Niese
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life. -- Katherine Paterson
I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine. -- Liam Neeson
The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there's this huge silence about it around me angers me. -- Sunitha Krishnan
The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age. -- Rosemary M. Wixom
Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty. -- Jane Goodall
Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night. -- Stephanie March
Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely. -- Tim Johnson
Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully. -- Anthony Browne
For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another. -- Fred Rogers

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