Quotes About Children

Children throw tantrums because they've imagined their 'father in heaven' does so. And because, their inherited religious book has, in written, shown them so.

The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ's hands.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.