Child Quotes · Page 159

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

— William Lyon Phelps

I've always thought of myself as a singer, even when I was a child.

— Sunny Ozell

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.

— Nita Ambani

Love your parents.We are so busy growing up,We often forget that,They are also growing old…

— Princealanz

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

— Herbert Spencer

“It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.”

— Aldous Huxley

Every child is born with a speciality and nobody can snatch away someone's opportunity.

— M. K. Stalin

Here's to the kids who wish they could be invisible sometimes.

— Anonymous

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

— James P. Hogan

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

— Lauren DeStefano

When you have five little kids, you're not going to open Mindy Kaling's latest book. You're playing with your kids.

— Jim Gaffigan

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as…

— Andrew Solomon

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting…

— Aimee Bender

“So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by…

— Erin Merryn

I don't feel that clock ticking. I'm not really worried about it. At the same time I would like to have kids…

— Bridget Marquardt

Whenever excessive regulation is on the horizon, you can guarantee our kids will be wheeled out as a battering ram against adult…

— Claire Fox

You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But…

— Anonymous

All around me, I saw people who were taught by their parents, as I was, to just toe the line, not ruffle…

— Simu Liu

“Parents, your kids will thank you in the future for helping them cultivate their creative talents. It's important that you allow them…

— Robin S. Baker

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument,…

— Nina Bawden

“Do not make your child your only hobby or you will end up waiting by the telephone in a cheery room covered…

— Christie Mellor

Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as…

— Emily Post

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to…

— Delmore Schwartz

The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better…

— John Dewey

“Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.”

— Marilynne Robinson

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

— Anonymous

“Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

— Dan Savage

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

— Saint Augustine

“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.”

— Greta Thunberg

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

— Debbie Reynolds

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

— John Gardner

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

— Ban Ki-moon

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

— Jeff Kinney

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

— Mr. T

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

— George Sand