Quotes about Children, page 11

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Quote by Erich Fromm about children

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age.

Quote by Erich Fromm about children

Elvis brought out this mothering quality, I cut his meat up for him. I tasted it before he ever had it. I would fix his deviled eggs, cut off the top, put his butter in, prepare all his food as a mother would for a child.

Quote by Priscilla Presley about children

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

Quote by Priscilla Presley about children

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

Quote by Priscilla Presley about children

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Quote by Walt Disney about children

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Quote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart about children

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Quote by Karl Kraus about children

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger about children

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

Quote by Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov about children

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

Quote by Nicole Kidman about children

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. Peter Pan

Quote by Sir James Matthew Barrie about children

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about children

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Quote by Robert A. Heinlein about children

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about children

The laws of this world are for children.

Quote by Frank Wedekind about children

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Quote by Coco Chanel about children

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.

Quote by Sophia Loren about children

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

Quote by Mario Puzo about children

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Quote by Carl Sandburg about children