Child Quotes · Page 136

Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

— Robert Rodriguez

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— Enkudie

The child who is given everything he asks for usually wont succeed in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you.

— Gillian Flynn

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

— Robert Breault

“Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”

— Mitch Albom

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

— Peter Block

Often times with what we do, the time we get to spend with our children is limited.

— Sean Payton

“So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by…

— Erin Merryn

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting…

— Aimee Bender

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of…

— Roald Dahl

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good…

— Gregory David Roberts

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to…

— Fanny Kemble

“That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.”

— Leigh Newman

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.

— Natalie Dormer

Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do…

— Marla Runyan

A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases…

— Penelope Leach

“Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail…

— Christopher Hitchens

“We need to be exposed to healthy relationships and treated with love and respect to break destructive patterns of thoughts and behavior…

— Tanesia Harris

I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months,…

— Shakuntala Devi

“Adulthood is supposed to be about "a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity". "Adolescents, and their parents who were once adolescents, are…

— Phillips

I was in Italy in 1992 working on magazine articles when I got a call from the Italian travel commission. They asked,…

— Bob Spitz

Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union…

— David Blankenhorn

The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and…

— Bruno Bettelheim

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

— Jodi Picoult

Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.

— Holly Madison

Never scold or beat a child until he starts asking you questions whose answers you are unable to give.

— Vikrant Parsai

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

— Francois Rabelais

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

— Nora Ephron

When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

— Delbert L. Stapley

“It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand.”

— Nicholas Sparks The Lucky One

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

— Ben Stein

I haven't even imagined having a kid yet. It's actually kind of one of my biggest fears, but that's OK.

— Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

— Joe Baca

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

— Jodi Picoult

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

— James Dobson

There's one person that you would give up your life for, and that's your child.

— Paula Patton

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

— Marya Hornbacher

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

— Allison Pearson