Child Quotes · Page 187

“You look at your child's face, and you don't wonder whose side you're on. You know. That side.”

— Ted Kosmatka

“Every child must have chores to do. It gives them dignity in work and the joy of labor.”

— Earl Hamner Jr

I was in therapy as a child and definitely think that therapy is a very useful tool.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

— C. S. Lewis

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

— Willie Robertson

I am regular person…For forget that...Nobody has a PICTURE PERFECT life...I am still just a child...

— Willow Smith

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

— Thomas Lickona

Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this…

— Mary Steenburgen

I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry…

— Drew Barrymore

It makes common sense that children, whose brains are rapidly developing, should not be hitting their heads hundreds of times per season.

— Ann McKee

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

— Anna Silk

“So they’ve seen their parents up close, as one does with statues in Florence. The cracked toes and chalky masonry.”

— Hala Alyan

“Cognitive and social learning cannot break through to a child whose world is intrusively loud, blindingly bright, unbearably malodorous and physically complicated…

— Ellen Notbohm

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might…

— Emmylou Harris

Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or…

— Orson Bean

In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are…

— Delia Ephron

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old),…

— Martin Jacques

I've had some interesting roles along the way, but they tend to be cause-driven. They're always about something. There isn't time for…

— Bonnie Bedelia

“There are social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty...and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us…

— Claire Messud

“for the most part, my peers, like me, have embarked on the eternal compromise that is dealing with a toddler. We are…

— Andrea J. Buchanan

The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents…

— Hope Edelman

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to…

— Mary Manin Morrissey

I acted as a hobby when I was a child but wasn't initially very good at it.

— Tuppence Middleton

When you have a kid your life changes completely, it's not about you anymore.

— Nacho Figueras

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“But the thing about having kids is: you can’t go to pieces; you just have to keep going.”

— Helen Fielding

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them.

— Anonymous

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.

— Ryan Lindley

I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn't occur to me.

— Bill Bailey

“Nothing is wrong with you dear child. You are special, you are… a witch.”

— Margeaux Laurent

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

— Anonymous

Material things are not everything. Children learn what they live.

— Anonymous

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”

— John Locke

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

— B. C. Forbes

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

— Temple Grandin

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

— Merton Miller

“Kids should be cute, caring, cuddly, and above all, quiet.”

— Jarod Kintz