Child Quotes · Page 120

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

— Thomas Sowell

If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.

— Joyce Meyer

“‎The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

— Sue Townsend

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.

— Tahereh Mafi

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

— Tom Hodgkinson

“Ideally parentage should be a privilege of health, not a by-product of sexual agitation. Is”

— Will Durant

People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably,…

— Mike Farrell

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet…

— Alice Walker

Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth…

— Robert Muller

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children…

— Beck

The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these…

— Randeep Hooda

“The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip…

— Agatha Christie

I hate the idea of parenting being this false perfect picture. It's challenging and difficult at times. I like the fact I…

— Tom Fletcher

Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

— George Q. Cannon

“So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and…

— Anthony Breznican

You get those couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between…

— Rosamund Pike

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of…

— Andrew Solomon

“It’s the parents who respond to their children’s setbacks with interest and treat them as opportunities for learning who are transmitting a…

— Carol S. Dweck

The number one thing in my opinion parents can do is be the way you would like your child to be. Don't…

— John Assaraf

Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than…

— Jan Hunt

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and…

— John Dewey

“When a child isn't allowed to deal with his frustrations on his own—to cry, for instance, then to handle the situation, and…

— Susan Forward

“When you go to heaven you can be what you like and I intend to be a child.”

— Alfred B. Douglas

Parents 1 Jobs are to be Positive Role Models for their children.

— Anonymous

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

— LeAnn Rimes

“Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.”

— Heather Schuck

“Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.”

— Bill Cosby

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

— Anonymous

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don't have them at all.

— John Kennedy

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

— Julia Butterfly Hill

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

— J. G. Holland

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

— Andy Andrews

If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause…

— Will Rogers

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

— Katherine Anne Porter

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to.

— Margaret Atwood

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

When your children are an option rather than a priority, prepare yourself for the consequences.

— Nishan Panwar