Respecting Children Quotes

#1. A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.

Godfrey Bloom

#3. I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes.

Philip Kerr

#4. Henrietta might have said.

Susan Meissner

#5. Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. We not only need to have a deep respect for children; but also a deep respect for the child in everyone.

C. JoyBell C.

#7. The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.

Henry James

#8. Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.

Claudia Jones

#9. I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

Raquel Cepeda

#10. A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.

J. Edgar Hoover

#11. I think I sense a tone of honesty, if honesty exists in this world.

Emilyann Girdner

#12. We are respecting our parents' wishes ... They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

Lemony Snicket

#13. We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object

Magda Gerber

#14. I don't exist to build a genre. I exist to build the Kingdom.

LeCrae

#15. Everyone always told me I was fated to be in front of the camera.

Jesse Bradford

#16. After all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

Nevil Shute

#17. Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.

Charles Wesley

#18. Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing them into our own preferred ideas and gestalts...

Irvin D. Yalom