Child Quotes · Page 119

As parents, it's easy to not give the child enough credit and not spend enough time together.

— Rahul Dev

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

— Henry Fielding

I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.

— Valerie Harper

“An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.”

— Jim George

Children are like fingers. No matter which finger you bite, it hurts.

— Choi Woo-shik

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

— Louise Erdrich

“That was our parents’ game; it was too hard for children.”

— Tim Guest

Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."

— Viggo Mortensen

When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in…

— Sarah Dessen

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated…

— Janine di Giovanni

Children are amazing. Believe in yourself and stay strong. And remember that there are people out there who can help you when…

— Stephen Mulhern

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school.…

— Paulo Coelho

“Accept each child as an individual, the way he is - And maybe in this atmosphere of accepting and trusting each other…

— Marty MacCraken

Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route…

— Darren Shan

“If you hold onto hurt and anger with a narcissist, the children will have no normal parent. The narcissistic parent will use…

— Tracy Malone

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither…

— Anonymous

When I started acting classes, I was inspired. The truth is I never dreamt of being an actress as a child. But…

— Ana Layevska

Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to…

— Charlotte Riley

“When children are hurt and in pain psychologically, they don't want to be in distress, so when the situation becomes intolerable, they…

— Robert W. Firestone

Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny…

— Cormac McCarthy

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we…

— Artie Lange

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes,…

— Oscar Wilde

“When I talk to parents who tell me, as a way of justifying something unkind their child has done, 'What can I…

— R.J. Palacio

“The answer is that we can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else. We…

— Alice Miller

Time may be money, but the best thing parents can spend on their children is not money, but time.

— Vikrant Parsai

Parents are one's companions in life but not partakers of one's karma.

— Munshi Premchand

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

— John Rosemond

I think for one thing, kids are a lot smarter now then we ever were.

— Jeff Foxworthy

As a child, I spent a lot of summers going to the beach with family friends.

— Jenny Han

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

— Dennis Prager

We need to encourage our kids to express their feelings. We need to help them find their voice.

— Ryan North

“From his own experience, Alex knew that parental love is an ideal, not a guarantee.”

— Lisa Kleypas

I didn't want to get married to somebody just because I was ageing and wanted a child.

— Neena Gupta

Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.

— Laurie David

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

— Lynn Freed

Children must be taught that they are worth being heard, being saved and being loved.

— C. JoyBell C

“You see yourself as if old and wise. I see you really miss your childhood.”

— Toba Beta

Children crying, cast out and neglected, only in a world so cold, only in a world.

— Mudvayne

When I was a child I watched the Italian league a lot because there were many Brazilians there.

— Oscar

We were forever and always. My love for you being forever, while the child in you is always.

— Dominic Riccitello