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Quotes About Children

Instead of making the children do good behaviors by threatening to punish them if they don't, the teachers watch the children until they spontaneously do a good thing and give them rewards to reinforce the behavior and make them more likely to do that behavior again in the future.
~ Temple Grandin
The Asperger's child at the gifted meeting is doing well in school, but the Asperger's child at an autism meeting may be in a poor special ed program, bored, and getting into trouble because adults in his life hold lower expectations of his abilities. Unfortunately, in some cases, people are so hung up on the labels attached to students that they teach to these low expectations and aren't even curious to learn if the child is actually more capable.
~ Temple Grandin
Words are a net to catch beauty. in The Field of Blue Children (short story)
~ Tennesse Williams
Then again, wolf kids needed a wolf nanny. Or wolf manny in his case. The
~ Julia Talbot
By the time Trump left office, more than 5,500 children had been separated from their parents and 628 children still had not been reunited with their families.
~ Julian E. Zelizer
The movie and the political campaign GEMS built around it were typical of [Rachel] Lloyd's in-your-face approach to politics and publicity. "If we just framed it as 'rescuing children,' people would give us more money," she says. "I could put pictures of little scared blond kids on our Web page. But this isn't about rescuing a child from a bad situation. This is about what we, as a culture and a society, are creating; why can this be perpetuated within our society?
~ Julian Sher
Los niños quieren a sus padres, aunque estos no se lo merezcan; es inevitable.
~ Julianna Baggott
It just goes to show that our children are not carbon copies of us, even if we imagine that is how they will turn out. They have their own souls; they choose their own paths.
~ Julianne MacLean
just goes to show that our children are not carbon copies of us, even if we imagine that is how they will turn out. They have their own souls; they choose their own paths.
~ Julianne MacLean
I reined in my imagination because there was no point dreaming about what might have been. If things had been different, my life would not be the same today, and I could never want that. Not now, because I loved my life. I loved my husband and my children and the happy home that we shared.
~ Julianne MacLean
CHILDREN LEFT UNATTENDED WILL BE GIVEN AN ESPRESSO AND A FREE PUPPY and LOVE IS A FOUR-LEGGED WORD.
~ Julianne MacLean
The light of compassion shined so steadily from within them that others could clearly see all the choices they were making, so they no longer existed in the dark. Without a word, without a sword, the energy that was void of light was unable to function on Earth. This brilliant light, which emanated from individuals and became a collective force, stopped the planet's shifting. The seas became calm. The children stepped out to play. And a new song was heard everywhere.
~ Julie A. Barnes
I suppose partially because of the success of the early movies and things like that, I began to realize, that children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them. I know that it's important to make them feel very valuable, not to talk down to them.
~ Julie Andrews
The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.
~ Julie Andrews
When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons." POPPINS was such a learning experience, as was THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I tell you, every one of them just helped me grow in what I do and did and each one was such a phenomenal working experience.
~ Julie Andrews
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.
~ Julie Andrews
My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together. This month we're taking meditation to free the mind. Last month it was Rolfing. Have you ever Rolfed, Tone?" "Only after the school's shepherd's pie," I said.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Still, who, I wondered, owns the disappearing story that, in, part, they tell? The story of the teacher and the children lives now in so few places: on that weather-beaten wall, in scrapbooks filled with photographs. History isn't a sculptured cup; it's more like a sieve through which so many stories pass and disappear.
~ Julie Checkoway
Children always take their own parents for idiots.
~ Julie Schumacher
Kinder sollen nur reden, wenn die Hühner pissen.
~ Julio Cortazar
Kinder sollen nie Wein trinken. (Außer an Neujahr; dann sollen sie saufen.)
~ Julio Cortazar
The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.
~ Julio Iglesias
I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.
~ June Allyson
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
~ June Jordan