Child Quotes · Page 164

“This kid has more mood swings than a toddler's birthday party.”

— Alexandra Bracken

The best thing I can recommend is to listen to your child. I really mean that.

— Ken Jeong

Every parent wants their child to do better than they do.

— Steve Doocy

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

— Danny Bonaduce

You want to try to always do the right thing and show kids the right way to live.

— Nikola Vucevic

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

— Chetan Bhagat

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

— Jessica Valenti

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

— Carol Shields

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too…

— Arne Jacobsen

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself…

— Jodi Picoult

“[children]can thus learn the art of loving and know truly that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or…

— Peter Tompkins

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children…

— John Updike

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had…

— Lois Wyse

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked…

— Rhianna Pratchett

Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“If you want a couple of weeks in bed (as I did, bi-annually), and if you have indolent and credulous parents, it’s…

— Martin Amis

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified…

— Nick Flynn

“You don't need anger to control children. You do need action, occasionally. Furthermore, you can apply the action anywhere on the time…

— James Dobson

One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this…

— Kenneth Keniston

It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment…

— Maria Montessori

Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you…

— Jennifer Lopez

But I don't think any parent can expect to escape this life without disappointing his child at some point. And the same…

— Julie Klassen

“Curiosity rocks. Don’t discourage it. Our instinct as parents is to say, “Oh no, don’t do that” when our toddler surprises us…

— Janet Lansbury

“It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender.…

— Orson Scott Card

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

— John Denver

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

— John Berger

“The child you once were lives on within you unchanged.”

— Bryant McGill

A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.

— Bill Cosby

Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home

— Ritu Ghatourey

I've been acting since I was a child doing church plays and stuff like that.

— Brian Michael Smith

Being a parent means putting your selfish wants behind you and sacrificing everything you love for your child!

— Anonymous

“Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...”

— J.K. Rowling

Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

— Fran Lebowitz

My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

— Al Pacino

I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.

— Sam Shepard

Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.

— Rhea Perlman

Being a parent means loving and supporting your children through it all.

— Anonymous

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

— Anonymous

PARENTS they don't leave you when you are young... So, Don't leave them when they are old...

— Ritu

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

— Sam Levenson