Child Quotes · Page 175

I could be an extrovert but I was also this anxious, introverted child.

— Rebecca Front

An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

— Socrates

“That girl is a grade one a-hole with a severe attitudinal problem.”

— Wild Child

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.

— William Monahan

When I was a child, I had it in my head to play in the Champions League and win it.

— Lucas Moura

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

— Anthony Horowitz

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

— Nina Bawden

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

— Nancy Mitford

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that…

— Cate Blanchett

It's not that parents expect a lot from their kids, except, maybe 5-10 minutes of time in a day spent on something…

— Sudeep

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt…

— Kevin Spacey

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

— Robert Smith

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big…

— Bob Keeshan

When we have children, we have certain expectations of what the future will hold - rightly or wrongly - and it's hard…

— Coleen Nolan

3 Things to learn from a CHILD:-To be happy for no reason..To be always busy doing something..To know how to demand small…

— Tinku Razoria

I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what…

— Tomie dePaola

“THE BONUS CHARACTERISTICS are not common to all spirited kids, but if your child possesses any of them, you will need to…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

“A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at…

— Gloria Ng

Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be…

— Alice Miller

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing,…

— Mary Blakely

“The lines between need and want are continually and intentionally blurred. Years ago, a pal of mine had bought a new video…

— J.L. Collins

“9. MOOD: The world is a serious place for some spirited kids. They’re analytical, meticulously reviewing experiences, finding the flaws, and making…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Im married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and…

— Karyn Parsons

“Unconditional parental love is the indespensible nutrient for the child's healthy emotional growth. The first task is to create space in the…

— Gordon Neufeld

“Our children are ever both joy and bane, are they not?”

— Carole Cummings

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

— Doug Larson

“The children imitating the cormorants, Are more wonderful Than the real cormorants”

— Kobayashi Issa

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

— Derren Brown

Our children are like mirrors, they reflect our attitudes in life.

— Anonymous

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

— Holly Near

“If children don’t push the edges now and again, what’s the point of being a child?”

— J.D. Robb

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

— Bertrand Piccard

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

— Richard L. Evans

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

— Tony Fadell

When you have a child, you have to have a hawk eye. You have to be with the child all the time.

— Manoj Bajpayee

Some parents find it difficult to understand that children are Growing Up and not Growing Down.

— Terry Mark

“Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow.”

— Deirdre Sullivan

You want to do everything you can so your child has every tool to succeed.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

— Steve Carell

My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.

— Bebe Rexha