Child Quotes · Page 122

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blueeyes or small feet.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us.

— Zoe Perry

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

— Michel de Montaigne

Kids have a tendency to switch off if their parents are multitasking.

— Rahul Dev

“A parent's love is unconditional. A parent's satisfaction comes with caveats.”

— Ron Fournier

A parent is there to help you all you life like no one else will.

— Aaliyah (K

“Kids do not appreciate subtlety in adults when they are trying to understand something.”

— Stan Morris

I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded…

— David Chang

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you.…

— Angelina Jolie

To any child, the first occupations that are presented to you are your parents'. I was appealed to my dad's occupation from…

— Gustaf Skarsgard

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to…

— Florence Nightingale

As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting…

— Ian Gomez

“On occasion, it occurs to adults that they are allowed to do all the things that being a child prevented them from…

— Sloane Crosley

“If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Directly or indirectly, we owe these kids the responsibility of letting them know that they are loved, and that despite the barrage…

— Oche Otorkpa

At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which…

— Kevin Barry

There are all sorts of challenging conversations as a parent and it's never easy. I think the main thing is trying to…

— Archie Manning

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event…

— Anonymous

I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe…

— Lauren Bacall

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Children are the product of their parents, and crappy or nonexistent parenting skills load down a child with baggage that’s no fault…

— Kimberly Belle

You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve,…

— Joel Parkinson

The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'

— Shel Silverstein

You don't raise kids. You raise carrots. You sponsor kids.

— Jess Lair

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

— Warren Farrell

I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that.

— Zazie Beetz

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

— Ogden Nash

“Three-year-olds, however, have the added disadvantage of a biological lack of impulse control.”

— Sarah Ockwell-Smith

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

— Steve Schirripa

“playing at the entrance of the hut. “Whose children are these?” he asked.”

— Peter Rollins

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

— Kathryn Hahn

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

— C.M. Stunich

It's different when your son is not typical, and you have to deal with him and handle him every single day.

— O. T. Genasis

“To train a child in the way he should go, the trainer has to be in front of the same way providing…

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

— Kevin Spacey

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

— Horace Mann

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

— Anand Sharma