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Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

Quotes by Alison Gopnik

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

Quotes by Alison Gopnik

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

Quotes by Alison Gopnik

Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their own pretend play. Children with the most elaborate and beloved imaginary friends will gently remind...

Quotes by Alison Gopnik

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

Quotes by Alison Gopnik

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

Quotes by Alison Gopnik

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

Quotes by Alison Gopnik

My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.

Quotes by Alison Moyet

Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease?...

Quotes by Alison Sweeney

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

Quotes by Alice Walker

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Quotes by Alice Walker

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Quotes by Alice Walker

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone...

Quotes by Alice Walker

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Quotes by Alice Walker

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Quotes by Alice Walker

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Quotes by Alice Walker

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food...

Quotes by Alice Waters

I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They're talking about the diets of children, but they're talking about Band-Aids. We're not seeing a vision.

Quotes by Alice Waters

We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat at school for free and that the cafeteria would become part of the school's curriculum.

Quotes by Alice Waters

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

Quotes by Alice Waters

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of quotes about children are on this page?
A mix - a filmmaker recalling how shocked audiences reacted to a controversial movie by grabbing their children and leaving the room, a statement about entertainers not being responsible for teaching children life lessons, thoughts on adult responsibility toward children and parents, and a personal note about raising children while working in law.
Is there a quote about parenting responsibility?
Yes, one quote describes being a grownup as assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - as it puts it - "here's the big curve" - for your parents too. For more on family roles, see the Family page.
Is there a quote about entertainment and children?
Yes, one quote argues that entertainers exist to entertain, not "to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself" - placing that responsibility squarely on parents. Browse the Father page for more on that theme.
Is there a personal story here about raising children while working?
Yes, one quote comes from someone in private law practice in New York City, describing raising children together with their husband while balancing that career.
Is there a quote about a controversial reaction involving children?
Yes - one quote recalls being "anathema in polite society" after making the film 'Last House,' with people reportedly grabbing their children and leaving the room in reaction. For more on faith and family values connected to children, see the Prayers page, or the Believe page.

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