Child Quotes

“Calm yourself child”

— Jordan Leigh Bookhart

Kids are important.

— Mike DeWine

I'm a child of the '80s.

— Travis Knight

Burnt child fire dredth.

— John Heywood

Children crave direction.

— Nancy Juvonen

Children force you to grow.

— Chevy Chase

Choose your parents wisely.

— Bertrand Russell

Kids are our future.

— Derek Jeter

I never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't.

— Diana Rigg

I wasn't a normal child. No boybands.

— Diane Morgan

If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

— Stanley Williams

I believe the children are our future

— Whitney Houston

“Parents, they'll screw you up every time.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

— Al Green

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I have chosen not to have children.

— Mona Eltahawy

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

— Jonathan Kozol

I grew up in Northumberland, a happy child in a loving, hard-working family.

— Robson Green

Here's to the kids who are so good at hiding how they feel they do it without thinking.

— Anonymous

Give something to your child if you think he must give it later to those when they need it badly.

— Vikrant Parsai

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

— Quentin Crisp

“Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.”

— Abeba Habtu

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

— Lydia Sigourney

If you are not able to look after yourself, you are not able to look after your kids.

— Tom Fletcher

Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The…

— Mary Pipher

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half…

— Julie Burchill

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who…

— Maria Montessori

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

— Anthony Powell

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a…

— Colleen Atwood

When you're a kid, you don't understand your parents are flawed people. You want them to be perfect, and when they aren't,…

— Jemele Hill

I think children understand the world better than adults do. Especially when it comes to how we treat other people.

— Kalidou Koulibaly

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with…

— Thelma Golden

Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others…

— Sandra Scarr

Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them,…

— T. Berry Brazelton

“Katherine and the children have made paper boats and are floating them on the moat to see which one stays up the…

— Elizabeth Fremantle

“a good deal of unkindness and selfishness on the part of parents towards children is not generally followed by ill consequences to…

— Samuel Butler

With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with…

— Wendy Lustbader

My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me,…

— Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

It's not good to assume what your kid wants. It's not good to push them in their own way. It's not good…

— Quvenzhane Wallis

For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to…

— Ishmael Beah