Child Quotes · Page 112

Polanski was an abused child. And he flew too near to the sun too quickly.

— Maureen Lipman

“home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”

— Kate Morton

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

— Luke Evans

The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Stop blaming your child's behavioral problems on the media. You're just a bad parent.

— Anonymous

“When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

— Ziggy Marley

Too often, our societal norms still set up a false choice between parenting and professionalism.

— Michelle Wu

As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16…

— Miranda Kerr

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own…

— Margaret Qualley

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why…

— Anonymous

You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.

— Jeff Bridges

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ...…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

After having a child, my career just skyrocketed. You have all that weight to kill off - you're working 10 times harder.

— Jessica McDonald

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces…

— Olga Kurylenko

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and…

— Michael Gracey

Encourage your children to come to you for counsel with their problems and questions by listening to them every day. Discuss with…

— Ezra Taft Benson

My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't…

— Richard Greenberg

Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of…

— Anonymous

“Teach your children that a person is more valuable than any treasure found on this earth, teach them to love, teach them…

— Quetzal

Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect…

— Pablo Schreiber

And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought…

— Conrad Hyers

“No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.

— Anonymous

I have a feeling that you'll probably see in the future, several of our kids running for office.

— Jim Bob Duggar

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

— Joey Adams

The best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do…

— Harry S Truman

'Tusk Tusk' is about a family of kids who are alone, the audience don't know why.

— Georgia Groome

I had a career in Hollywood, I was a child actor for 10 plus years.

— Brett Cooper

A creative adult was once the unproductive child who survived.

— Pacifiersucker

I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

— Marie Windsor

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

— Jim Trelease

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

— John Locke

It's so important to look out for your child and protect them.

— Jazz Jennings

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

— Irwin Redlener

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

— Dan Simmons

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel…

— Tammy Blanchard

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

— Philip Pullman