Best Growing Children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

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

Children Littles Growing Clothes Making Changes Growing Children

Book:The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

Source: The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

“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.”

World Children Enough Dream Games Growing Up Growing Lucky Bars Dreams Come True Gaming Children Growing Up Videogame Growing Children

Author:Tiger Woods

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

Children My Own Boys Growing Connections Growing Children

Author:Sam Trammell

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

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Author:Stephen Schwartz

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Wells Children Enough Happiness Realizing Vision Watches Growing Up Growing Our Children Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Ruben Papian

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Children Stories Fall Wonder Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up India Falling In Love East Tales Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Salman Rushdie

“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.”

Way Children Reality Individual Space Successful Growing Plans Groups Awareness Identity Ego Accord Synthesis Space Time Life And Time Growing Children Group Identity

Book:Identity and the Life Cycle

Source: Identity and the Life Cycle

“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.”

Thinking Children Problem Lying Artist House Growing Up Records Growing Painting Products Solve Finished Visible Admiration Exposed Definite Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“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.”

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Author:Sam Keen

“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.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

Way Children White Growing Up Growing South One Way African American Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Coretta Scott King

“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.”

Firsts Children House Memories Growing Up Growing Garden East Jerusalem Meter Mosques Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Rula Jebreal

“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.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.”

Children Moving Parent Letting Go Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Mitch Albom

“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.”

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Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“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.”

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Author:William McNamara

“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.”

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Author:Annie Wersching

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:RZA

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“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.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Sarah Brightman

“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.”

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“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.”

Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven

“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

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Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

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

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Author:Walt Disney

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

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Author:Lady Bird Johnson

“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.”

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Author:John Garrett

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

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

Thinking World Years Children Different War Ends Felt Born Growing Up Growing Eternity End Of The World Different Worlds Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Jeremy Northam

“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.”

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Author:John Hume

“... 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.”

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Author:Julia Lathrop

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

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Book:HER LIFE AND WORK

Source: HER LIFE AND WORK

“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.”

People Ifs Children Past Community Growing Acquire Older People Growing Children Knowledge Of The Past

Author:Margaret Mead

“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!”

“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.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“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.”

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Author:Ezra Taft Benson

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

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Author:Spoken Reasons

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

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Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

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

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Author:Mike Huckabee

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