Child Quotes · Page 170

“Your children will become who you are, so be who you want them to be”

— David Bly

Parents should always teach their children as much as possible about everything.

— Jerami Grant

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

— Caroline Rhea

I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn't know what to do with me.

— Jay Ryan

“A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father.”

— Miguel Syjuco

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

— Anthony Geary

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naïve.

— Ogden Nash

It's important to teach your kids the value of being active by setting a good example.

— Heidi Klum

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost…

— Thomas A. Edison

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

— Anne Frank

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing…

— Michiel Huisman

What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They…

— Dylan Moran

My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three…

— Chord Overstreet

I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their…

— Yolanda Adams

“is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them…

— Improve Life Books

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be…

— Randall Jarrell

I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,…

— Robert Gottlieb

One thing I have noticed about having kids, is all you do is worry about them. Worry how they're going to do…

— Wayne Bridge

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to…

— Jim Parsons

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a…

— Thomas Merton

[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely…

— Fred Rogers

“in every moment when you are parenting, you are being parented. In every moment when you are called to give grace, you…

— Paul David Tripp

It's amazing to me that some kids are surprised to find out Indians are still alive.

— Michael Horse

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

— Dorothy Nolte

“No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child”

— Robert D. Harris

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

— Magic Johnson

“Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

“The child inside of me, Cares about the child inside of you.”

— José N. Harris

“Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.”

— Bruce Lansky

As a child I wanted to be a kind of hybrid of Ferris Beuller, Ace Ventura, Bette Midler, and Lucille Ball.

— Mae Martin

Being a parent means praying you children will grow, while wishing they could stay little forever.

— Anonymous

Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child.

— Gwendoline Christie

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

— Isabelle Huppert

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

— Anne Lamott

“is more effective to train that subconscious, emotional you the same way you would teach a child to behave”

— Ray Dalio

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

— Esi Edugyan

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

— Abigail Van Buren