Child Quotes · Page 172

Parents should work together as efficiently as two book ends.

— Anonymous

Every child grows up with the hope of being something special in life

— Alexandria Koehn

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

— Giorgio Napolitano

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

— Mariska Hargitay

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

— Karl G. Maeser

Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.

— Liam Neeson

Being a parent means being there for your child through their worst times.

— Anonymous

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

— Anonymous

Kids know how to play one parent off against the other. So Mum says no, only to be told: 'But Dad said…

— David Essex

When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to…

— Maria Montessori

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they…

— Laura Marano

“From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to…

— Stephen McCauley

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you…

— Bob Dole

Parenting is the biggest sacrifice one can make, it's putting your life on hold to fulfill the promise of your children's tomorrow's.

— Frederica Ehimen

It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the…

— Archibald Rutledge

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of…

— Samuel Richardson

“This means that everything the child must use in taking care of himself must be in proportion to his size and ability;…

— Paula Polk Lillard

I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some…

— Natasha Trethewey

“Parents would like to believe that their children don’t understand or notice some of the bad choices we make in life, but…

— E.N. Joy

Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering…

— Barbara Coloroso

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child…

— Brian Cox

Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A…

— Rudy Boesch

To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or…

— Jello Biafra

To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...The…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!”

— K. Lamb

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

— Robert Breault

You can't put cuffs on Mr. Cluck! What will the kids think?" Stuart Bagget

— Janet Evanovich

Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

— Will Smith

In the eyes of a child you will see...the world as it should be. -NeSha

— Anonymous

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

— Angad Bedi

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

— Marilu Henner

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

— Marco Pierre White

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

— Billy Corgan

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

— Pablo Casals

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

— Wes Fesler

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

— Bill Watterson

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

— Karisma Kapoor

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

— Jodi Picoult

Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.

— Bertie Carvel

“Like many parents, they equated normality with being happy and productive.”

— Daniel Tammet