Child Quotes · Page 113

That's a crazy thing to think about a child. 'I don't like you.'

— Jacob Elordi

There is still quite the vibe out there that as a parent you have to be completely in control and in charge.

— Ross W. Greene

Those children are bound to fall in love with each other! -King Hubert

— Sleeping Beauty

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

— Heath Ledger

Sometimes you worry when young kids get too much too early are they going to lose that hunger and desire?

— Darren Bent

“Elizabeth chuckled. Sometimes seeing a kid suffer the indignity of having to work gave parents a secret joy.”

— Adrianne Byrd

I know every child thinks of their mother as superwoman; I certainly did.

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

— Nancy Gibbs

Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the…

— Hasso Plattner

“To want your child to remain innocent whilst toughening up enough to survive This Life is entirely contradictory, but, as far as…

— Nick Alexander

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would…

— Philippa Gregory

The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that,…

— Andy Andrews

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense…

— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they…

— Frederick Lenz

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is…

— George Eliot

Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two…

— Laura Huxley

Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged…

— Terri E Apter

“Hundreds of studies have shown that children and adults recover more quickly when they realize that hardships aren’t entirely their fault, don’t…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Parenthood wasn’t about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own…

— Lisa Unger

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work…

— Virginia Postrel

Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to…

— Shefali Tsabary

Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.

— Charles Spurgeon

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

— Harry S. Truman

“When you feel a child inside of you springing to life, that's how you know you're where you should be.”

— C. JoyBell C

The child who has been taught to obey at home will seldom be an embarrassment to his parents in public.

— Anonymous

I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor.

— Timothee Chalamet

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

— Lara Flynn Boyle

Just being able to be around your kid, I don't think anything can beat that.

— Terry Rozier

“Parents were meant to die for their children, not be the ones hurting them.”

— Natasha Preston

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

— Stanislaw Lem

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

— Henry Ward Beecher

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Whatever character you give your children shall be their future.”

— Steve William Laible

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

— Maria Montessori

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

— Earl Wilson

I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.

— Brooke Shields

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

— Chinese Proverbs