Child Quotes · Page 139

What happens across the planet can have a greater impact on your family than what happens down the street.

— Marco Rubio

“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

— S. E. Hinton

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

— Anonymous

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

— Caroline Pratt

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

— Antoine Rivarol

“Fair is the stick by which parents of more than one child are driven.”

— Gabrielle Burton

“Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.”

— Asa Don Brown

I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies…

— Chris Carter

“A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and…

— Stephanie Coontz

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling,…

— Alison Gopnik

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and…

— bell hooks

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I…

— Mara Wilson

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the…

— Erik Erikson

Over-protective parents are so stupid. If you're not giving your child any room to make mistakes, what is he/she learning from?

— Anonymous

When you're a parent, you spend time with the baby. You look at the baby's face and envision her future and what…

— Ray J

Most parents hate to experience conflict, are deeply troubled when it occurs, and are quite confused about how to handle it constructively.…

— Thomas Gordon

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at…

— Clare Balding

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven…

— Robin S. Sharma

It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become…

— Mo Farah

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent…

— Srikumar Rao

I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or…

— Bat for Lashes

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

— Anthony Horowitz

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

— Joe Baca

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

— Kevin Nealon

I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.

— Amanda Seales

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

— Ted Cassidy

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— George Sand

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

— Dk

To think of your creations in terms of better or worse- big mistake. They are your children.

— Jay Sankey

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

— Patti Smith

“Hadley knows this isn’t some Disney movie. Her parents aren’t ever getting back together”

— Jennifer E. Smith

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

— Henry Rollins

You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth.

— Ice Cube

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

— Noah Webster

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

— Carol Bellamy

Everybody know's how raise childern, except the people who have them.

— Anonymous