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
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
‐‐ Mary Wollstonecraft
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
‐‐ Paul Auster
Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.
‐‐ Tyler Florence
Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
‐‐ Donna Tartt
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
‐‐ Marcelene Cox
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
‐‐ Yo-Yo Ma
Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.
‐‐ Michael Gove
Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
‐‐ Kate Thompson
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
‐‐ Anthony Hecht
Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman
Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.
‐‐ Lawrence Kutner
Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
‐‐ Harlan Coben
Children learn to smile from their parents.
‐‐ Shinichi Suzuki
Children learn what they live.
‐‐ Ron Finley
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
‐‐ Erik Erikson
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
‐‐ Donna Tartt
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.
‐‐ Tyler Perry
Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.
‐‐ Andy Garcia
Children make your life important.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck
Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.
‐‐ LZ Granderson
Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
‐‐ Deborah Norville
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
‐‐ Ellen Key
Children need continuity as they grow and learn.
‐‐ Thomas Menino
Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.
‐‐ Todd Bridges
Children need models rather than critics.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert
Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.
‐‐ Andy Garcia
Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.
‐‐ Tony Buzan
Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.
‐‐ May-Britt Moser
Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.
‐‐ David Perlmutter
Children need to have a home. I don't mean a physical four walls and a room. There needs to be an emotional and spiritual and loving place in life. That's what a family is.
‐‐ Donald Wuerl
Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own.
‐‐ Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.
‐‐ Gordon Neufeld
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.
‐‐ Nina Bawden
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
‐‐ Karl Kraus
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
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin
Children reinvent your world for you.
‐‐ Susan Sarandon
Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.
‐‐ Allen Klein
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
‐‐ Anne Sullivan
Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.
‐‐ John Boyne
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
‐‐ David Walliams