We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work. — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
If you tell a kid not to run to a water slide, he/she will walk for 2 steps, then start running again. — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are. — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“Parents who experience pause from “the unnecessary beauty of an ice storm coating trees,” while their kids—who “bewilder well,” she writes—are simply… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers… — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
Look into the heart of each child. That child might be suffering and eventually they'll be an adult, but help them get… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide… — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
“Though culture and home environment play important roles in the overall shaping of a person, we have learned that children have an… — Elizabeth Wagele Copy Share Image
It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“How can children bombarded from birth by noise, frenetic schedules, and the helter-skelter caretaking of a fast-paced adult world learn to analyze,… — Jane M. Healy Copy Share Image
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
“Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luidaeg: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Children need long distance, steady, persistent advocates who do the hard, quiet, thankless day-to-day work.” — Deborah Kenny Copy Share Image
The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“What a dreary stodgy world of adults the children saw when they went out!” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference. — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
There's kids out there that have so much life to live. That's a beautiful thing. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
“We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.” — Chris Burkmenn Copy Share Image
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“I’m a kid at heart, and that is the very thing without which I would not have a heart.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image