Growing Children Quotes:

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

- Patrick Rothfuss

source: Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK

topic: Children, Growing Up, Thinking, Kids Growing Up, Loss Of Innocence

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Girl, Book, Reading, Lion Witch Wardrobe, Growing Old

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Children, Parking, Parking Space

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up

- Walt Disney

source: "Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Children, Disney Company, Children Growing Up

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

- Mitch Albom

source: Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.77, Hachette UK

topic: Letting Go, Mother, Children, Children Growing Up, Growing Children

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Children, Parenting, Important, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

- Lady Bird Johnson

topic: Children, Believe, Kids, Inspirational Parenting, Loving Children

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

- Maria Montessori

topic: Children, Independent, Adults, Montessori, Growing Children

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

- Mike Huckabee

topic: Children, Growing Up, Divorce, Children Growing Up, Growing Children

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Children, Past, People, Knowledge Of The Past, Growing Children

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

- John Hume

topic: Mother, Growing Up, Children, Children Growing Up, Growing Children

If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children growing up or parents having to struggle in situations which could not possibly nourish healthy growth.

- Stanley Greenspan

topic: Growing Up, Children, Struggle, Children Growing Up, Years Of Life

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

- John Garrett

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Children, Awe And Wonder, Growing Children

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'

- Robin Williams

topic: Children, Growing Up, Book, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Lion Witch Wardrobe

Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It's not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well.

- Ruben Papian

topic: Happiness, Children, Growing Up, Growing Children

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.

- Salman Rushdie

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Falling In Love, Children, Growing Up, Growing Children

The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

- Erik Erikson

source: Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Group Identity, Growing Children

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

- Robin G. Collingwood

topic: Growing Up, Children, Lying, Children Growing Up, Growing Children

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

- Lady Gregory

source: Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.1096, eBookIt.com

topic: Children, Clothes, Growing, Growing Children

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Children, Growing Up, Boston, Hunter Gatherers, Children Growing Up

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

- Coretta Scott King

source: "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

topic: Children, Growing Up, White, Growing Children

My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest in all of East Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque.

- Rula Jebreal

topic: Children, Growing Up, Memories, Growing Children

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

- Johnny Cash

source: Source: blankonblank.org

topic: Song, Children, Growing Up, Children Growing Up, Gospel Music

On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.

- Sam Keen

topic: Children, Mean, Men, Growing Children

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

- Lorraine Toussaint

topic: Children, Growing Up, Long, Children Growing Up, Growing Children

I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.

- William McNamara

topic: Dog, Strong, Horse, Strong Bond, Stuffed Animal

I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was just me and my momma. We were really, really close. Learning to live in the world without her has been incredibly hard. At first, it didn't make any sense - how to do it, to live without her - but you slowly get somewhat used to it.

- Annie Wersching

source: "Actor Annie Wersching: Losing her mom and the curative powers of a good night's sleep". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Growing Up, Children, Father, Children Growing Up, My Momma

As I look back on it now, I'm thinking of one very vital factor, that one factor being that I was afforded the luxury - the luxurious opportunity - of finally being able to put something back. As a child growing up, it was his [Frank Sinatra] efforts that put a roof over my head, food in my stomach, clothes on my back, and that got me an education and sent me to the doctor when I was sick. All those things a child could benefit from parent. I did not want to be in a position where all I had ever done was take, take, take, frankly.

- Frank Sinatra, Jr.

source: "A recent interview with Frank Sinatra Jr., who died this week". Interview with Mike Holtzclaw, www.dailypress.com. March 17, 2016.

topic: Children, Growing Up, Opportunity, Growing Children

My time is being shared with my fans and the people of the world, while I have got children growing with a lot of days of not seeing their father.

- RZA

source: Source: www.rappersiknow.com

topic: Children, Father, People, Growing Children

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.408, Penguin

topic: Nature, Children, Men, Manure, Imports

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

- Ulysses S. Grant

topic: Children, Growing Up, School, Land Of Opportunity, Public School

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the shadows of a North Carolina plantation. It's only been in my lifetime that blacks have had the right to vote, live in certain areas or hold certain jobs. It is with this black history that I write about the financial challenges African-Americans still have.

- Michelle Singletary

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Jobs, Children, Growing Up, Plantations, Children Growing Up

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

- Iain Duncan Smith

topic: Growing Up, Children, Moving, Growing Children

As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: New York, Children, Growing Up, Newspaper Reporters, Residents

As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Dream, Growing Up, Children, Videogame, Children Growing Up

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

- Sam Trammell

topic: Children, Boys, Growing, Growing Children

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

- Stephen Schwartz

topic: Art, Growing Up, Children, Children Growing Up, Growing Children

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

- Simon Beaufoy

source: "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

topic: Mother, Children, Growing Up, Sari, Single Mother

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

- Jeremy Northam

topic: Growing Up, Children, War, Children Growing Up, Growing Children

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

- Sarah Brightman

topic: Children, Growing Up, Ideas, Children Growing Up, Growing Children

... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.

- Julia Lathrop

topic: Children, Adults, Criminals, Growing Children

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

- Alice Walker

topic: Country, Children, Growing Up, Transcendental Meditation, Growing Children

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!

- Jonathan Lethem

topic: Children, Growing Up, Keys, Gentrification, Children Growing Up

Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.

- Werner Herzog

topic: Children, Moving, Growing, Growing Children

The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Children, Growing, Today, Growing Children

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

- Spoken Reasons

topic: Growing Up, Children, Use, Growing Children

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Education, Children, Growing Up, Sophistry, Children Growing Up

I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home and listen to my grandfather tell stories as he smoked one of three daily cigars.One of the things my grandfather instilled in me, was that I was really blessed because I was a citizen of the greatest country in the history of our mankind.

- Marco Rubio

source: Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

topic: Country, Children, Blessed, Growing Children