Child Quotes · Page 165

When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.

— Nancy Grace

I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.

— Sebastiao Salgado

There is no such thing as a bad kid only kids who make bad choices

— Anonymous

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

— Cindy Crawford

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

— Lucille Ball

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

— Tori Amos

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

— Roy Barnes

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

— Ann Landers

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

— Maria Montessori

There's this unspoken assumption when you're the child of a doctor that nothing is ever wrong with you - or at least…

— Jenny Mollen

There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult,…

— Rosanna Arquette

One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old I…

— Rooney Mara

I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child…

— GloZell

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only…

— Jean Piaget

There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of…

— Josette Sheeran

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him…

— Anonymous

Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right…

— Jonathan Kozol

It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them…

— Anna Quindlen

“Many families actively discourage the expression of tough emotions like fear and anger. Happiness and tranquility, meanwhile, make it to the top…

— John Medina

When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a…

— Maria Montessori

“Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am…

— psyche roxas-mendoza

I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an…

— Anne-Marie Duff

The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They…

— Steven Pinker

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

— Honore de Balzac

Before you have kids you can't even fathom what it really is.

— Jason McCourty

“Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.”

— Joan of Arc

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.

— Jim Rohn

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

— Julian Fellowes

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

— Nelson Mandela

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

— Azzedine Alaia

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

— Sean Penn

And at some point who's to say that you cannot have sex with a child some point.

— Rush Limbaugh

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

— Johnny Mercer

I your child grows into becoming, a complete stranger to you, then your parenting has been really bad

— Anonymous

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

— Maria Montessori

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

— Eleanor Farjeon

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

— Robert Bloch

If you're a child, and you're on Broadway, you automatically know every other child in a production.

— Sadie Sink