Child Quotes · Page 148

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

— Dennis Potter

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

— Ewan McGregor

Look at life through The innocence of a child You will see life is filled with magic

— Julandie Scholtz

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

— John Hartford

Exposing children to nature, especially at an early age, keeps them grounded.

— Roshni Nadar

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

— John Medina

“Educate every child to have a good head, good heart and kind spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who…

— Nathan Parsons

Imagine being the parent of a six or seven-year-old who needs a transplant and there is no match. I understand now what…

— Andy Cole

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who…

— Rachel Carson

We sometimes want to remain a silent spectator to the minor falls that children experience, in order for them to discover for…

— Mak_786

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was…

— Reggie Watts

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to…

— Tony Buzan

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to…

— Kailash Satyarthi

“Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are.”

— Nelson DeMille

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever…

— Nelson Mandela

There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and…

— Anna Quindlen

Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a…

— Walter Payton

I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and…

— Kimberley Nixon

When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with…

— Joan Didion

“What a strange, sad man is he!" said the child, as if speaking partly to herself. "In the dark night-time, he calls…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has…

— Quentin Bryce

“But what if your kid runs into the street in front of a car? Don't you have to use Method I?" ...…

— Thomas Gordon

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

— Laura Schlessinger

The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

— Frederick Lenz

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

— Edward Humes

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

— Lewis Carroll

Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated.

— Michele Borba

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

— Charlotte Mason

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

— Gever Tulley

As a child, I was deeply religious and went to church every Sunday.

— Sheila Hancock

Parenthood is one of the toughest, non-paying jobs there is that offers nothing but unconditional benefits.

— Laura S

“She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.”

— Somaly Mam

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

— Kendra Wilkinson

“As a child you don’t question your parents’ choices. You accept them. They”

— Bruce Springsteen

I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.

— Djimon Hounsou

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley

“I could so totally rock the homeless scene if I didn’t have a baby growing inside me.”

— Alisa Mullen

Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

— John Ray