Child Quotes · Page 72

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

— Claire Tomalin

“The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.”

— Elizabeth Chadwick

It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.

— Kevin Jonas

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Sometimes you just have to sit down and ask your parents if they sold your soul.

— Nikhil Saluja

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

— Judith Martin

Asking your children about their fears or worries about going back to school will help them share their burden.

— Chuck Norris

“Toddlers, on the other hand, are able to wreak havoc vertically and with velociraptor-like speed.”

— Mike Spohr

Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They…

— Michael Strahan

Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost…

— Beck Bennett

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

— Asha Bhosle

I think you lose your innocence when you have kids, because the world suddenly becomes a much more dangerous place.

— Jon Stewart

My parents taught me about the mistakes that they made. At the end of the day, it worked out pretty good for…

— Carlos Correa

You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them…

— Cyndi Lauper

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're…

— Orson Scott Card

I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.

— Rob Reiner

“It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a…

— George Orwell

There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left…

— Frank Pittman

“My job, as I saw it, was to teach the children how to live within homes and communities. They had to learn…

— Marty MacCraken

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and…

— Brene Brown

It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes…

— Selma Fraiberg

“You don't hit a child when you want him to stop hitting. You don't yell at a children to get them to…

— Jeannette Galambos Stone

“After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit…

— Jane Austen

To keep children healty, it's important to keep them active. Of course you can control what goes into their mouths, but it's…

— Jennie Finch

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

— Nick Cave

Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.

— Ingrid Weir

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

— Maria Montessori

I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.

— Ilona Andrews

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

— Pythagoras

“But a child’s belief in its own shortcomings is not much influenced by facts.”

— George Orwell

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

— Ogden Nash

As a child, one dreams about becoming the MVP of your team.

— Yadier Molina

Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.

— Ruby Bridges

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

— Sophocles

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

— C. A. Bartol

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

— Dave Eggers

We must become children again if we wish to achieve the best.

— Philipp Otto Runge

A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.

— Roger McDonald

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

— Michael Gambon

I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.

— Sushant Singh Rajput