Young Children Quotes - Page 8

• When you are so full of sorrow
  that you can't walk, can't cry anymore,
  think about the green foliage that sparkles after
  the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when
  you hope a final night will cover the world,
  think about the awakening of a young child.

  Omar Khayyam

  Children, Rain, Night

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• Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

  Margaret Mahy

  Funny, Children, Writing

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• Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily carnivorous mammal with retractible claws, a distinctive sonic output, etc.? I'll bet not. You probably show the kid a lot of different cats, saying 'kitty' each time, until it gets the idea. To put it more generally, generalizations are best made by abstraction from experience.

  Ralph P. Boas, Jr.

  Children, Cat, Kids

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• Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.

  John Berger

  Children, World, Young

  John Berger (2011). “A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor”, p.122, Vintage

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• In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Selfish

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• Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

  Oliver Sacks

  Children, Stories, Demand

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.151, Pan Macmillan

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• Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.

  David Elkind

  Children, Practice, Numbers

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.

  David Elkind

  Children, School, Childhood

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.

  Steve Wozniak

  Children, School, Important

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Young children are such nasty little beasts!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Children, Littles, Nasty

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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

  Siri Hustvedt

  Dream, Children, Sleep

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.50, Macmillan

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• O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.

  Alice Meynell

  Sweet, Children, Spring

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Hate, Tragedy

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Pain, Children, Space

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

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• Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.

  James L Hymes

  Children, Memories, Thinking

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• As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

  William S. Burroughs

  Children, Boys, Yellow

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

  Fred Melamed

  Children, Believe, Two

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

  Lindsay Davenport

  Children, Divorce, Want

  "Lindsay Davenport On Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods’ Wife: 'Very Loving, Very Loyal'". www.huffingtonpost.com. Mach 18, 2010.

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• Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Children, Parent

  Interview With Evelyn Mcdonnell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Time, Children, Hands

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• I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Believe, Moving

  "Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author: A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia Haviland". Book by Virginia Haviland, 1970.

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• Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world.

  David O. McKay

  Mother, Children, Kissing

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• In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Light, And Love

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• I just think we can't do enough of this [student exchanges]... And when you get young children traveling internationally, I think they come back different people. And you can't put a price tag - you can't put a value on that.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Thinking, Price Tag

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• My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Children

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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