Child Quotes · Page 69

Play is really the work of childhood

— Fred Rogers

“Kids need to get answers from humans who love them.”

— Neal Stephenson

Adults are only kids grown up

— Anonymous

I had to take on a lot as a child.

— Kerry Katona

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

— John Green

I've got the attention span of a child.

— Ricky Gervais

Parenting needs to come to the forefront.

— Bill Cosby

When I was a child, I had it in my head to play in the Champions League and win it.

— Lucas Moura

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

— Anthony Horowitz

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

— Nina Bawden

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.

— William Monahan

I could be an extrovert but I was also this anxious, introverted child.

— Rebecca Front

An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

— Socrates

“That girl is a grade one a-hole with a severe attitudinal problem.”

— Wild Child

“I’m a kid at heart, and that is the very thing without which I would not have a heart.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity…

— Marilynne Robinson

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

— Anonymous

“Abused children pick up from their past encounters to expect less of themselves and others. They are not commonly taught to trust…

— Patricia Dsouza

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

— Jon Lee Anderson

Being a parent is a full time job. No matter what the profession, put your children first and god will see you…

— Anonymous

When you were kids, you can tell when an adult is bad or good; and I think people can feel that I'm…

— Jason David Frank

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no…

— Bill Cosby

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should…

— Jean Piaget

The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood…

— Carson McCullers

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see…

— David Crosby

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen…

— E. L. Doctorow

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years.…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living…

— Dan Pearce

“Several families had obnoxious kids bouncing off the walls. In this case, "bouncing off the walls" is not just a figure of…

— Andy Weir

Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong.…

— Mary Pipher

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us…

— L. Tom Perry

Neilvin John is a respectful and obedient child.

— Neilvin John P Aventurado

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

— Takuan Soho

“The birth of a child is divine miracle.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to see my child grow.

— Paul Pierce

“A child's instincts are often the most honest.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Children bring life to the soul.”

— Red Phoenix

I was really a very antisocial child.

— Randy Rainbow

The best security for old age: respect your children.

— Sholem Asch