Child Quotes · Page 151

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

— Brendan Behan

“If salvation and help are to come, it is through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man.”

— Maria Montessori

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

— Joseph Cornell

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the…

— Gene Simmons

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

— Alice Waters

I learned that I can't save the world, but I can help a child at a time.

— Afeni Shakur

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.

— Edmund Wallace Hildick

My favorite Christmas gift as a child was - I had a ninja turtle skateboard.

— Danny Amendola

“Children bleed as easy as anyone else, don't they? Why would they be spared? A child is nothing but a future enemy.”

— Brian McClellan

“Words of praise should mirror for the child a realistic picture of her accomplishments, not a distorted image of her personality.”

— Haim G. Ginott

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with…

— Jose Marti

An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in…

— Andre Gide

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

— Laura Lippman

“Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.”

— Charles Todd

Fostering is the most worthwhile and selfless act of love you can ever imagine. The children will teach you so much about…

— Jen Lilley

“Children teach us every day. Over the course of my 30-plus years of practice, I have found that the greatest source of…

— Scott M. Shannon

Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the…

— M. Scott Peck

“Harshness, gruffness, and sternness are not effective in shaping a child’s will. Likewise, constant whacking and threatening and criticizing are destructive and…

— James C. Dobson

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make…

— Susan Sarandon

“But if you believe that adults can ‘make’ children learn well—in the absence of or in defiance of a child’s inner sense…

— Kirsten Olson

In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For…

— Wil S. Hylton

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me…

— Saoirse Ronan

If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and…

— John Dickerson

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

— Mother Teresa

Occasionally even young children should listen to the sword can not work hand and hand sword can not work

— Mak_786

You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.

— Hanna Rosin

Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

— Rosalind Wiseman

“The beguiling scope of an infant’s mind! adultly considered to be limited to toys and toes. Psychological”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

— Harry S. Truman

“Children just need love," Sarah had said. "It doesn't always matter from whom.”

— Anonymous

“When you make a child happy, the best gift you will ever get will be the smile of that child!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

— Anonymous

When I was a child, the idea of coming to Mumbai and becoming a singer was a far-fetched one.

— Neeti Mohan

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

— John Lyly

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

— Bruce Jenner

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

— Alain de Botton

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

— Wes Fesler

“If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.”

— Victor Hugo

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

— Salmon P. Chase