Child Quotes · Page 36

A child's first teacher is its mother.

— Peng Liyuan

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

— Karl Lagerfeld

If people have noticed, parents matter in Virginia.

— Glenn Youngkin

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

— Bobby Sands

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

— Seal

Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

— Anonymous

Children and fooles speake true.

— John Lyly

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

— George Lucas

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

— Anonymous

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

— Steve Schirripa

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

— Nicole Kidman

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

— Maurice Sendak

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

— Shannon Woodward

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

— John Dryden

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

— Beverly Cleary

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because…

— Rob Reiner

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

— J. C. Ryle

As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those…

— Laura van den Berg

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so…

— Agatha Christie

I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from…

— Matt Mullenweg

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands…

— Michael Chabon

It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar…

— Dervla Murphy

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to…

— Rachel Carson

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is…

— John Ortberg

I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents.…

— Douglas Coupland

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child…

— Bobby Jindal

Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It's when they compete with adult attachments that the problems emerge. It's just like when…

— Gordon Neufeld

“Children are also given to us to help us personally mature as parents. They teach us how to stop being so selfish…

— Stephen Kendrick

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere,…

— C. JoyBell C

I think it's good for parents to be supportive, to motivate, and to somewhat nudge their kids because the majority of kids…

— Dominique Dawes

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

— Barbara Bush

I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.

— Claire Denis

A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child

— Rudolf Dreikurs

I am like a child when it comes to gizmos and gadgets.

— Adnan Sami

Most parents don’t know really their children.

— Otto Frank

I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.

— Hailey Gates

“unsuspecting children from”

— Calvin Crowther

I was a child actor but not a child star.

— Laurence Fishburne