Young Children Quotes

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.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.

As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

I would tell to young people to sit on their heels. Children do that naturally so if they never had furniture they would do it. It's wonderful for all parts of the body.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

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.

Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial.

Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

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.

We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.

The Lourie Center...is a national pioneer in developing and applying early intervention techniques to diagnose and treat emotional and developmental problems in young children.

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

A young child's brain has a thinner skull and the brain contains more fluid. The more fluid or fat in any material, the more it absorbs microwave radiation.

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.