Child Quotes · Page 171

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

— Agatha Christie

Parents are very strict to their daughters cause they think that were gonna raped wherever we go.

— Anonymous

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

— Jacqueline Woodson

When you have a kid your life changes completely, it's not about you anymore.

— Nacho Figueras

I acted as a hobby when I was a child but wasn't initially very good at it.

— Tuppence Middleton

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

— B. C. Forbes

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”

— John Locke

Material things are not everything. Children learn what they live.

— Anonymous

“By then she was the only one of her seven siblings without a child and quickly approaching thirty (which is like forty…

— Helena Andrews

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

— Alfred Noyes

“The abused children feel so useless within that they become more vulnerable to exploitation in the future too.”

— Patricia Dsouza

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

— Maria Montessori

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a…

— Friedrich Frobel

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting…

— Edie Falco

Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your…

— Benjamin Spock

“Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly…

— David Brooks

“That night, I take Wallerstein's book from my bedside table and re-read something she mentioned only in passing: the ambivalence that many…

— Katie Hafner

When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth…

— Michael Cadnum

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern.…

— James Mercer

you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do;…

— Gwen Raverat

Until you have a child, you won't really understand that you would actually throw yourself in front of a bus for your…

— Russell Peters

We are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that…

— Greg Boyle

“You hope for the best for your kids. You want them to be happy, and you want to feel close to them…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism…

— Tavis Smiley

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

— Anonymous

“Nothing is wrong with you dear child. You are special, you are… a witch.”

— Margeaux Laurent

I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn't occur to me.

— Bill Bailey

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.

— Ryan Lindley

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them.

— Anonymous

“But the thing about having kids is: you can’t go to pieces; you just have to keep going.”

— Helen Fielding

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

— Rani Mukerji

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

— Harry Edwards

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

— Anonymous

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

— William Stanley Jevons

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”

— Khalil Gibran

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

— Robert Breault

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

— Michael Morpurgo

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

— Deborah Norville

“But a woman was liable to put her child before everything else, in the end [...]”

— Ken Follett