Child Quotes · Page 101

I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

— Randy Houser

As a child I loved to be in the kitchen with my mum and aunties, eavesdropping on the adults.

— Monica Galetti

School: An institute where the child goes to play while the parent goes to pay.

— Nikhil Saluja

Listen to your parents; respect them. They are well wishers.

— Sridevi

Don't blame the child for forgetting lessons; make the lessons unforgettable.

— Sonam Wangchuk

“Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society.”

— Ted Agon

“All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one.”

— Maxim Gorky

I have skated when I was a child, but it was just with our friends and our parents, no special technique.

— Saara Aalto

When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And…

— Adele Faber

“Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected…

— D.J. Kyos

The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which…

— Maria Montessori

Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves…

— Irene Hunt

“Challenging behavior occurs when the demands and expectations being placed upon a child outstrip the skills he has to respond adaptively.”

— Ross W. Greene

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can…

— Anonymous

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of…

— Anonymous

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that…

— Matt Haig

You bring your children onto this earth thinking, 'Okay, I want to make sure that by that time, I'm gonna be good…

— Christina Milian

Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight…

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a…

— Thomas Merton

“Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely…

— Fred Rogers

“in every moment when you are parenting, you are being parented. In every moment when you are called to give grace, you…

— Paul David Tripp

I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,…

— Robert Gottlieb

One thing I have noticed about having kids, is all you do is worry about them. Worry how they're going to do…

— Wayne Bridge

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

— Patch Adams

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

— Gaston Bachelard

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

— Bill Moyers

“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness.”

— Gavin de Becker

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

— Timothy Carey

Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.

— Carol S. Dweck

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

— Barbara Coloroso

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

— Ray Lyman Wilbur

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

— Erik Erikson

“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.”

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Children who avoid the mistakes their parents made often make the mistakes their parents avoided.

— Anonymous

The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

— Caroline Pratt

If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.

— Dorothy Nolte

“What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.”

— Tedd Tripp