Child Quotes · Page 176

Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down.

— Anonymous

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

— Tracy Morgan

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

— Ellie Goulding

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

— Louise Hay

“Human parents are probably really nice and let their kids stay up all day and do whatever they want.”

— Zack Zombie

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.

— Steven Wright

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“You wouldn't know from experience that small children are the most powerful learning engines in the known universe.”

— Daniel Quinn

If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it…

— Noel Gallagher

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

— Robin Marantz Henig

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's…

— Kathryn Harrison

“No one ever said life was going to be easy.” Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too…

— Fredrik Backman

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what…

— Emily Deschanel

I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I…

— Michael Keaton

I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

As parents, we'll go to the ends of the earth for our kids. As soon as they're born - and during pregnancy…

— Ralph Northam

“When possible, try to reward a child's good behavior, instead of punishing their bad behavior. Perhaps give them surprise IOUs for an…

— Nancy Lavoie

“My Webster’s dictionary defines spirited as: lively, creative, keen, eager, full of energy and courage, and having a strong assertive personality. Spirited—it…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

“The goal is for your children to feel as if they can come to you without fear or disappointment, anger, or judgment.…

— Melissa Shultz

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs…

— Neil Gaiman

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power…

— Alanis Morissette

“Both kinds of parenting, finally, are forms of overidentification. The helicopter parent turns the child into an instrument of her will. The…

— William Deresiewicz

Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen…

— Penelope Leach

Want to prove God is real, just look into the eyes of a newborn child

— Ash Sweeney

If you know somebody who's lost a child, do mention, 'how are you feeling?'

— Jason Watkins

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

— Kate Morton

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

— Marilyn Manson

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

— Dave Barry

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

— Yasunari Kawabata

Children die every day because millions of us tell ourselves that caring is just as good as doing.

— David Wong

I grew up playing the piano, but you know, as a rebellious child, I convinced myself that I hated it.

— Aimee Osbourne

“A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds.”

— Mary Stewart

“People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.”

— Louis L'Amour

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

— G. Stanley Hall

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

— Louise Bogan

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

— Barbara Walters

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

— Samuel Butler

Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything.

— Robert Mondavi

“Parents do tend to judge each other. I don’t know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we’re doing?”

— Anonymous