Growing Children Quotes

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Growing Up, Childhood, Grew Up

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

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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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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

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

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

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Believe, Kids

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

  Mitch Albom

  Letting Go, Children, Moving

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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

  Frank A. Clark

  Children, Parenting, Important

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• 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

  Children, Independent, Adults

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• 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

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• 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

  Children, Past, People

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

  Spoken Reasons

  Children, Growing Up, Use

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

  Sam Trammell

  Children, Boys, Connections

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• 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

  Children, Growing, Today

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• 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

  Children, Moving, Growing

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• 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

  Growing Up, Children, Moving

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• 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

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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