Quotes of: Young-children Keyword

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Siri Hustvedt

The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

Kris Kristofferson

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

Helen Fisher

The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.

Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

I Want To Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia

[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)

The Mister Rogers' Parenting Book: Helping To Understand Your Young Child

In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well enough on their SATs to write their own rules. Only the weak and the feeble and the young—-well, not even the young...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of par- ents to children than by those of child...

The Four Loves

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Marvin Hamlisch

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Noah Webster

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

Lindsay Davenport

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.

Marty Rubin

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

Graeme Le Saux

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

Jane Asher

Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them.

Doug Dillon

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Ho Chi Minh

Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty.

Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children

Oba-sans, to put it in somewhat difficult terms, are life-forms that have stopped evolving. And anyone can turn into an Oba-san. Young women, of course, but even young men, even middle-aged men —even children. You turn into an Oba-san the instant y...

Popular Hits of the Showa Era

An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are ...

Johnny Got His Gun

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands....

Thomas McGuane