Child Quotes · Page 138

“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

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

— Will Cain

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

— Dennis Miller

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

— Eartha Kitt

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

— Robert Gioia

“These were kids for whom simple self-destruction wasn't enough.”

— Chuck Hogan

“Children are mirrors, tape recorders and copy cats. They show us who we REALLY are, repeat EVERYTHING we say and do exactly…

— Sotero M Lopez II

“A child owes respect to a parent, but there is no natural obligation to like a parent - unless the parent makes…

— Sydney J. Harris

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump…

— Johnny Depp

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you…

— Adora Svitak

I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in…

— Lykke Li

Life is to short to be yelling at parents and doing bad things and useing others for the fun of it. do…

— Chris Castillo

“Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse…

— Ann Brashares

I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

— Vinessa Shaw

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is…

— Michael Jackson

“If children are encouraged at this stage, receiving praise for their accomplishments, they will start to exhibit industry by being thorough, and…

— Nancy Sander

“In my experience, most parents sincerely want their children to be assertive, independent thinkers who are unafraid to stand their ground .…

— Alfie Kohn

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week.…

— John C. McGinley

The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

As you get older, as a father, you hope your kids can make that kind of impression on somebody who will say,…

— Dwane Casey

Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar.…

— Fanny Fern

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

— Kellie Martin

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

— Pythagoras

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.

— Lynn

For any parent, all they want is for their child to be safe and cared for.

— Ncuti Gatwa

Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.

— Claudia Jones

Step parents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a childs life experience.

— Azriel Johnson

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

— Jillian Michaels

“I am the only child in a room full of women and am immediately at ease.”

— Christina Baker Kline

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

— Terry Pratchett

The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be.

— Elaine M Ward

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

— Alice Walker

“A child is not a bona fide adult, regardless of age, until the child is self-supporting.)   During”

— John Rosemond

Clearly, a dog is not a child and can never be mistaken as one.

— Kenya Moore

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

— Steven Wright

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

— Constance Zimmer

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

— Gabrielle Bernstein