Young Children Quotes - Page 7

• Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

  Plato

  Children, Games, Soul

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• It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace

  Danny Glover

  Children, War, Long

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• The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not the only possible evidence, and since people sometimes tell lies, not even the best possible evidence. Even if there were stronger grounds for refusing to attribute pain to those who do not have language, the consequences of this refusal might lead us to reject the conclusion. Human infants and young children are unable to use language. Are we to deny that a year-old child can suffer?

  Peter Singer

  Children, Pain, Lying

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Teaching, Learning

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• Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

  Susanna Moodie

  Children, Party, Character

  Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.356, New Canadian Library

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• The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Mother, Children, Father

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 7: "Mother-Right", 1971.

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• The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

  Frank Shorter

  Stars, Children, Athlete

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• Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Children, Three, Research

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.185, Random House

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• Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.

  Roberta Gellis

  Children, Home, Heart

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• My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Children, Home, Childhood

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.5, 谷月社

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• For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

  Jacques Audiard

  Art, Children, Father

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• Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Movement, Degrees

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• As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

  Peggy Fleming

  Children, Thinking, Violin

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• Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.

  Michael York

  Children, Nice, Airports

  "Interview: Michael York actor". www.askmen.com.

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• I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in vain to find one that had my name on it. Because there were so many books in the library, with so many different names on them, I’d assumed that one of them — somewhere — had to be mine. I didn’t understand at the time that a person’s name appears on a book because he or she wrote it. Now that I’m twenty-six I know better. If I were ever going to find my book one day, I was going to have to write it.

  Daniel Tammet

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant". Book by Daniel Tammet, 2006.

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• A kiss brings back the youth of a young child, as when a hug brings back the memories of a lover.

  Jennifer Chen

  Children, Memories, Kissing

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• I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

  C. Everett Koop

  Children, Doctors, Justice

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• When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they become school-agers, and responsibility is an act that we inspire in our children as they grow through the middle years and become adolescents.

  Zoe Weil

  Children, Attitude, School

  Zoe Weil (2003). “Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times”, p.41, New Society Publishers

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• Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how many lives you touch, how many faces you bring smiles to. I see myself back in Hawaii doing something in the community to improve the lives of young children. Everything I've done is to prepare myself to give back.

  Manti Te'o

  Children, Giving, Community

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• Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help young children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome overcome their struggles with the really tough issues blocking their positive growth and development. Therapists, educators and parents caring for autistic children who endure a heavy load of anger, distrust, difficult interpersonal relationships, poor self-esteem and self-doubt need this excellent book.

  Liane Holliday Willey

  Children, Self Esteem, Block

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• If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul

  Roger McGough

  Children, Father, Reading

  "Emma Brockes interview: Roger McGough". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2005.

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• Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

  Dora Russell

  Children, School, Self

  Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”

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• Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Cutting, Appreciate

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• If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.

  Robert Morley

  Beautiful, Horse, Children

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