Child Quotes · Page 102

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

— Julia Cameron

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

— Benjamin Franklin

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

— Kenneth Clark

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

— Gilda Radner

“Children develop dysfunction when their development is disrupted.”

— Gunda Frey

Look at your children's faces there is never a day you can't look to them for a smile.

— Kevin McCarty

“Exemplify the loving way you want your children to live in your future." ~Author Mammy Oaklee”

— Mammy Oaklee

Being a parent means making unpopular decisions! Saying that doesn't make it easier though.

— Anonymous

As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I…

— Mark Teixeira

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force…

— Bob Keeshan

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

— Robert Breault

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health -…

— Shakira

The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering…

— Anais Nin

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are…

— Donna Tartt

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

— Pearl S. Buck

How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will…

— Barry Schwartz

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to…

— Jim Parsons

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a…

— Maxine Greene

It's a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and…

— Nick Vujicic

Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They…

— Marianne Williamson

“This, you see, is the true danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look…

— Seanan McGuire

Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their…

— Paul Bloom

How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.

— Edward R Nida

I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this.

— Cheryl Tiegs

Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.

— Azim Premji

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

— Mason Cooley

“Children are not more resilient, they are more forgiving.”

— Rebecca Nolen

“When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.”

— Blake Crouch

“Find all of your security and worth in being a child of God, a member of Christ’s body.”

— Francis Chan

All I have to do is look at a child's smile to keep going.

— David Dellinger

There are a lot of kids in the world. People seem to keep having them.

— Spike Jonze

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

— Judy Collins

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

— Karel Appel

“very few parents, in any age, are able to feel relaxed about the upbringing of an eldest child.”

— Andrew Cook

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

— Dave Ramsey

“A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!”

— Munia Khan

If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can’t, then you’ve got to think like they think,

— Walter Mischel

FULL NAME: What you call your child when you're mad at him.

— Nikhil Saluja