#child

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. ↗

— P. D. James

#give #later #receive #seldom

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#away #become #child #fully #grow

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ↗

— Erich Fromm

#age #children #every #feel #only

How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#answer #children #clear #coming #earth

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#children #listen #never #watching #worry

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#civilized #enterprise #learn #part #school

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. ↗

— Al Green

#everyone #fail #succeed #wants

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ↗

— Graham Greene

#childhood #door #future #lets #moment

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#any #blessings #children #decide #feel

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#absolutely #baptism #baptized #because #believe