Child Quotes · Page 143

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

— Peter Block

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

— Mitch Albom

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Holly Madison

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

— Sean Payton

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

“How a family reacts to a child’s behavior and how a child is disciplined also play a big role in the development…

— Jeffrey Bernstein

Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's…

— Lois Lowry

“A child being able to clearly and confidently articulate thoughts, ideals, and opinions have better self-esteem and they learn to deal with…

— Hannah Raybans

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon…

— Charlotte Mason

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going…

— Roz Chast

“Children of parents who reported having a rule about bedtime scored about 6 percentage points higher on an assessment of their vocabulary…

— David B. Agus

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready…

— Ron Taffel

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my…

— Marisa Berenson

“for the most part, my peers, like me, have embarked on the eternal compromise that is dealing with a toddler. We are…

— Andrea J. Buchanan

“There are social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty...and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us…

— Claire Messud

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old),…

— Martin Jacques

I've had some interesting roles along the way, but they tend to be cause-driven. They're always about something. There isn't time for…

— Bonnie Bedelia

In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are…

— Delia Ephron

When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the…

— Brian Eno

“But feel what happens in the soul when you imagine children saying to their parents, "What you gave me, first of all,…

— Bert Hellinger

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

— Kailash Satyarthi

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

— Lilian Katz

“The hope for our future blooms in the heart of every child.”

— Marie Cornelio

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

— Steve Erickson

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

— John Lennon

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

— Chinese Proverbs

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

— Kelly Preston

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

— Roald Dahl

I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.

— Madhur Mittal

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.

— Ellen Burstyn

Most parents feel traditional professional courses will give their children a stable future.

— Amala Akkineni

“Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.”

— Sabrina Jeffries

I was a happy child, just 9 years old, and I knew nothing about war.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

— Nathanael West

I'm the seventh child among eight siblings and have always had a gift for art.

— Brahmanandam