Children Growing Up Quotes - Page 2

• After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Children, Responsibility, Personality

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• 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

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

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

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• 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

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

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• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Family, Children, Growing Up

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

  Stephen Schwartz

  Art, Children, Growing Up

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

  William Stafford

  Dance, Children, Kids

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Should Have, Childhood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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  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

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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

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

  Mike Huckabee

  Children, Growing Up, Divorce

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• 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

  Children, Growing Up, Long

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Hollywood Starlette Lorraine Toussaint". Interview with Kristin Downer, www.nerdprobs.com. November 1, 2015.

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The soul is healed by being with children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Spiritual, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Growing Up, Children, Father

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

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• 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

  Growing Up, Children, White

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• 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

  Dream, Children, Growing Up

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• 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

  Children, Growing Up, Struggle

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• 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

  Children, Growing Up, War

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• 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

  New York, Growing Up, Children

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• 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

  Children, Growing Up, Boston

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• 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

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• 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

  Song, Children, Growing Up

  Source: blankonblank.org

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