Child Quotes · Page 185

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

— Dirk Nowitzki

When you're making a decision that involves your children a certain amount of clarity comes with it.

— Holly Willoughby

“When coming to making kids: Size doesn’t count, it’s sperm count that counts.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Be the kind of person your parents would be proud to know, even if they weren't related to you.”

— E.J. Hagadorn

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

— Hector Hugh Munro

“Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.”

— Hannah Kahn

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

— William Gaddis

Children may not inherit their parents' talent,but they absorb their values.

— Anonymous

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is…

— Karl Rahner

“If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for…

— Anonymous

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot -…

— Audrey Hepburn

I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just…

— Patricia Arquette

Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away.…

— Julie Burchill

“Aren’t parents ever right? They either do too goddamned much or too goddamned little, but they’re never right, at least not as…

— J.A. Jance

My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is…

— Maiwenn

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their…

— Jefferson Davis

I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or…

— Bat for Lashes

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent…

— Srikumar Rao

It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become…

— Mo Farah

In terms of parenthood, I think the pressure has amped up massively too. Some parents are setting the bar ludicrously high in…

— Helen Fielding

“I explained my whole theory about parenting being better if it was like a large Italian family having dinner under a tree…

— Helen Fielding

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to…

— Anonymous

Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop…

— Gary Chapman

“To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and…

— Suzy Kassem

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

— Hilaire Belloc

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

— Marva Collins

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

— Judy Sheindlin

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

— J. B. Priestley

As a parent, you worry about kids' safety and the world they're living in.

— Baron Davis

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

— Peter Hedges

Your kids have these big emotions they can't put into words.

— John Ross Bowie

“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.”

— Pär Lagerkvist

Being an adult doesnt mean you have to give up the child in you.

— Anonymous

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

— George Santayana

Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?

— Jo Cox

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child.”

— Benjamin Kunkel

I was an only child so, at home, I'm turnt up by myself, doing whatever I wanna do.

— Megan Thee Stallion

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

— Diane Abbott

“You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination”

— K. Lamb