Child Quotes · Page 130

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

— Kevin Nealon

Only as a child is one truly innocent. When he grows, he must pull on one veneer after another.

— Ted Cassidy

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

— George Sand

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

“In our path of life respect the Signals (Parents) to reach our destinations safely”

— Dk

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

— Andy Serkis

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

— Karl Kraus

Kids are like farts, you don't mind your own, but others are unbearable.

— Anonymous

“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

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

— Erma Bombeck

The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.

— Ian Stevenson

If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

— Quentin Crisp

My main lessons with my kids are to be yourself, have confidence in yourself, never give up and be good to people.…

— Jimmie Allen

“When a child is forced to prove himself as capable, results are often disastrous. A child needs love, acceptance, and understanding. He…

— Virgina M. Axline

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

— Anonymous

My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three…

— Chord Overstreet

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

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have…

— C. Everett Koop

And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

— Laura Nyro

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

— Anonymous

I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.

— Peter Dinklage

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

— Anonymous

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

— Philip Johnson

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

— Dennis Miller

Children are likely to do what you do than to do what you say...

— Anonymous

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“The innocent curiosity of children gives them astounding courage.”

— Plague Jack

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

— Maria Montessori

Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!

— Alison Gopnik

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

— Dennis Miller

For a child that feels lost, confused and out of place, they need help.

— Will Cain

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

— Eartha Kitt

“Your children have enough friends...they need a parent!”

— Robert Gioia

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

— Kellie Martin