Child Quotes · Page 100

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”

— Aristotle

Kids will often see something different and feel insecure about it because they don't understand it.

— David Furnish

Here's to the kids who wish they could relive that special moment again.

— Anonymous

“Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.”

— Tim Seldin

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

— Margaret Thatcher

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

— Orson Scott Card

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. . .

— Anonymous

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

— Robert Breault

It is written: when children find true love, parents find true joy. Here's to your joy and ours, from this day forward.

— Anonymous

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

— David Mitchell

I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole…

— Natascha McElhone

Often Times We Hate Our Parents For Bragging With Things We Didn't Want To Do. But There Is One Thing We Must…

— Pacifiersucker

It's very hard when your child doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want…

— Debbie Reynolds

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just…

— Graham Greene

I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

— Zig Ziglar

Conversing with children is a fine art… An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion…

— Miriam Toews

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated…

— Richard M. Daley

“You know before you have kids, people would tell you—they change everything. That life is so much better with them. That it’s…

— Amanda A. Allen

“Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist:…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats…

— Philip Treacy

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of…

— Sadie Jones

The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a…

— Thomas Hardy

When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours";…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Every time I lectured to a group of parents-to-be about baby brain development,”

— John Medina

Walt Disney grew up in Marceline, but almost every child has grown up with his beloved characters.

— Sam Graves

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

— Neal Shusterman

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

— Russell M. Nelson

I'm like an overgrown child! I don't know how to do anything!

— Ari Shaffir

“If you teach your kids to be a victim, you’ll rob them of hope.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

— Wilferd Peterson

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

— Jenny_pajaron

Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!

— Julie Bowen

“Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“Sometimes I think I’m still a child trapped in a woman’s body.”

— Cindy Vine

“Abused children as they grow to believe that they are damaged beyond repair.”

— Patricia Dsouza

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

— Maya Angelou

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

— Stephen King