Ellen Galinsky Quotes

#1. Witches do that, they put things you want in places you shouldn't go.

Claire King

#2. Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

Rett MacPherson

#3. Rise and shine, you horny little humpers!

Harper Sloan

#4. Child care is an invisible part of the economy.

Ellen Galinsky

#5. No, I don't see many movies. I don't even see my own movies.

Michael Keaton

#6. It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away your sense of control over your time.

Ellen Galinsky

#7. People don't hurt what they love.

Agnes Denes

#8. Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions
the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.

Ellen Galinsky

#9. In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.

Ellen Galinsky

#10. There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful, and takes a longer time to separate from his parents and join the group. Neither one nor the other is smarter, better adjusted, or destined for a better life.

Ellen Galinsky

#11. Crud. What was she supposed to do? Protect herself or the pretzels?

Stephanie Rowe

#12. In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.

Ellen Galinsky

#13. Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character
looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.

Ellen Galinsky

#14. Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.

Ellen Galinsky

#15. Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

Ellen Galinsky

#16. If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?

Ellen Galinsky

#17. The best way to achieve great success is to learn from wise people. Use them extensively with love, gratitude, and humility.

Debasish Mridha

#18. We have to go," Tris says, and I know she's not talking about leaving Michigan Avenue or taking Edward to the hospital; she's talking about the city. "We have to go," I repeat.

Veronica Roth

#19. It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country

Sunday Adelaja

#20. God abhors a naked singularity because that's when things stop making sense. Predictability breaks down. That's why the universe takes all its dirty little secrets and hides them in the centre of a black hole.

Gavin G. Smith