Child Quotes · Page 188

The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

— Roald Dahl

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

— Dorothy Nolte

“Any time your child pushes your buttons, he’s showing you an unresolved issue from your own childhood.”

— Laura Markham

“You can't gain control of your children by losing control of yourself”

— Jill Ammon Vanderwood

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

— Andrew Combe

Parents are very strict to their daughters cause they think that were gonna raped wherever we go.

— Anonymous

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

— Agatha Christie

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

— Max Minghella

Children do best when their parents live together in stable relationships, when two incomes can be a catalyst for opportunity.

— Marc Veasey

“I get the whole lost-your-parents thing. Been there. But that don’t have to turn you stupid. That’s a choice, like wearing green…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies…

— Suriya

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

— Randy Alcorn

“Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I couldn’t allow if I wanted…

— J.D. Stroube

I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear…

— Al Roker

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly…

— Pattie Mallette

If we want our kids to learn about the true essence of life, we have to take time out of our busy…

— Ravi Kishan

“One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and…

— Robin Wasserman

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being…

— Dexter Fletcher

“Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we…

— C. JoyBell C

We don't think there's something wrong with one- year-old children because they can't walk perfectly. They fall down frequently, but we pick…

— Joyce Meyer

There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the…

— Ann Hood

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It…

— Francis Thompson

“The best way to teach a child abuser to stop abusing is not counseling. It is not therapy. It is a mouth…

— Ryan Sayles

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used…

— Emmanuel Jal

I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.

— Benjamin Clementine

I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.

— Constance Marie

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

— Richard Carlson

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

— Mayim Bialik

Being a stepparent is knowing when to step in, when to step back, when to step up, when to step out.

— Joe Buck

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

— Jack Nicholson

“We spend time worrying about our kids' faith when the greatest influence in their lives is you sticking to yours.”

— Mark Holmen

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally…

— Tom G. Palmer

“Everybody, by birth to end of the life in the human world is grow-up as brand somebody ended as bitter brand and…

— Mansur Almia

“Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other…

— Jodi Picoult

You can be Einstein and your son can be completely stupid because we don't give over for our children what we have…

— Anonymous

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.

— Lawrence Kutner

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not…

— Sigmund Freud

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

— Bill Cosby

“Take any two-year-old through a car wash and their skulls are blown. FLAPS! FOAM! ROLLING THINGS! It's the closest they'll ever get…

— Drew Magary

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to…

— Eugene Ionesco