Child Quotes · Page 137

I was an only child, and had to grow up very, very quickly.

— Kerry Katona

“I am not my husband's wife, nor my child's mother...who, then, am I?”

— Rasana Atreya

“Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.' 'Don't think I care for that.”

— Mindy McGinnis

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

— Loretta Chase

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

— Anonymous

I don't miss having a child because Saab is like a child at heart.

— Saira Banu

Peter Pan has been one of my dream roles since I was a child.

— A. J. Pritchard

Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.

— James Nesbitt

Kids' brains are developing. Their heads are a larger part of their body, and their necks are not as strong as adults'…

— Ann McKee

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all…

— Jessica Valenti

We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong,…

— Plutarco Elias Calles

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix…

— Geena Davis

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

— Anonymous

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with…

— Michael Bond

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every…

— Cole Hauser

“Talking to children is like testifying in court, answer just whatÄs asked, don't elaborate, and don't volunteer information.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Good explanations enable children to develop a code of ethics that often coincides with societal expectations; when they don’t square up, children…

— Adam M. Grant

“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and…

— Alison Espach

It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love…

— Fred Rogers

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words…

— Chris Ware

Just don't pollute something that's not dirty. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

“I remember two boys being suspected of being gay in my class as a child in the 1970’s. Assuming there were also…

— Steven Magee

“I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't…

— Suzanne Collins

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I…

— Laura Mennell

Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

— Noelle Stevenson

Here's to the kids that go to bed every night with tears in their eyes and death in their hearts.

— Anonymous

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

— Deborah Harkness

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

When I look at my daughter now, I see another facet of myself, I see my own inimitable child.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

— Karl Kraus

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

— Andy Serkis

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Anonymous

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

— Dennis Miller