Child Quotes · Page 121

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

— Alison Gopnik

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

— Walt Disney

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

— Nipsey Hussle

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

— George Bernard Shaw

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

— Lemn Sissay

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

— L. Frank Baum

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

— Jon Krakauer

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

— Penn Dayton Badgley

“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult…

— Ian McEwan

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

— Maria Montessori

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” —James Baldwin”

— Wendy Jo Peterson

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

— Orson Scott Card

With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either.…

— Ellen J. Kullman

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

— Dirk Benedict

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to…

— Martha Grimes

“Adults think children are oblivious to their surroundings I think; as if we are blind and stupid until we blurt out something…

— Shiree McCarver

Sometimes a child will get lucky and be placed with foster parents who are loving and supportive and who consider that child…

— Rhea Perlman

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I…

— John Lydon

I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

In order to be happy parents dont let your kids pull you down ,to the point where you just give up ,…

— Fq

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things…

— Stephen Malkmus

It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other…

— Sophie von La Roche

The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or…

— Laetitia Pilkington

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

— Bob Gibson

“Children are sponges, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction.”

— Asa Don Brown

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

“The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.”

— Richard Kelly

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

— Hector Hugh Munro

If we all could see the world through eyes of a child, we would see the magic in everything.

— Chee Vai Tang

A child breaks the shell of a snail but not the shell of a tortise.

— African Proverb

I was a slave. I was sold in China in 2007 as a child at 13 years old.

— Park Yeon-mi

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

— Mitch Albom

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

— Louise Glück

“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.”

— Virginia Woolf

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

— Rosie Thomas

I'd like to have a child one day.. two days at the most.

— Anonymous

“You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you?”

— Lisa Dekis