Child Quotes · Page 177

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

— T. D. Jakes

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

— Aurora Aksnes

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

— John Irving

Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.

— Bill Cosby

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

— Ben Affleck

“Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.”

— Kelli Jae Baeli

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

— Peter Shaffer

It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

— Damian Lewis

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them,…

— Nicole Ari Parker

Being a parent means doing what's right in situations where your own desires and pleasures aren't most important.

— Anonymous

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop…

— David Chang

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

— Paul Graham

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

— James Howe

“So content people may not have the best of everything, but they make the best of everything. That is who you want…

— Dave Ramsey

A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

— Marjorie Holmes

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of…

— Maurice Sendak

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“You don’t need to blame your parents for teaching you to be like them. What else could they teach you but what…

— Miguel Ruiz

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

“If we will not do the little things like change a diaper, swaddle our young one, or sit down and play with…

— Steven Kolberg

“In short, we live with an overriding sense that we have ultimate control over who our kids become when they are adults.…

— Meg Meeker

It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in…

— Denene Millner

A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins…

— Gary L. Thomas

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority…

— Bernie Siegel

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

— Megan Fox

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.

— Ara Parseghian

Children love consistency... they love knowing what's going to happen.

— Emma Watkins

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

— Anonymous

I always say kids are the future and if we can inspire them, the world will be a much better place.

— Dana Brooke

“Kids are clever and full of fun but, oh, they can be a terrible nuisance!”

— Alice Provensen

“If we could only go back and knock some sense into those kids we once were.”

— Samantha Young

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

— Rajneesh

“When children meet other children, they have to do something -- fight or play.”

— Lavinia Greenlaw

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

— Jim Henson

Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

“They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.”

— Mardy Grothe

“We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.”

— Norman Spinrad

It has always been my dream to do Eurovision since I was a child.

— Saara Aalto