Child Quotes · Page 73

A good story is elegantly wrapped, and the child discovers things bit by bit.

— Robert Ingpen

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

— Jaggi Vasudev

As a child I ate all sorts of veg because my mother was a hippie and grew them all and made our…

— Lucy Worsley

If you do not honor your parents, your children will not honor you.

— Vikrant Parsai

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

— Paloma Faith

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

— Phyllis Diller

“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

— Groucho Marx

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

— Trey Parker

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and…

— Mark Twain

“You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives…

— Jill Eikenberry

I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a child. I have a lot of interests, and I really…

— Jordan Bridges

The curiosity that children have has greater potential to become genius, when we direct them in proper channel and encouragement.

— Senoraroy

“Children who observe an adult intentionally manipulating an object have a strong tendency to encode all of the adult's actions as meaningful.”

— David DiSalvo

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves…

— Marge M. Kennedy

To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you…

— Cormac McCarthy

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who…

— Marianne Williamson

We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this…

— Judith Viorst

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child…

— John Prendergast

“To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If…

— Sri Chinmoy

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn…

— Joan Cusack

As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over… So one can be grown up at seven. Then,…

— Eugene Ionesco

Kids don't say, "Wait." They say, "Wait up, hey wait up!" Because when you're little, your life is up. The future is…

— Jerry Seinfeld

A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was…

— Charles Dickens

In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching…

— Virginia Satir

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

— Robert Evans

You never truely know the real meaning until you have children of your own.

— Cynthia Wood

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

— Ivan Doig

As a child, I played on the road against bigger players. Due to my technical skills, I've always got by.

— Jerome Boateng

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

— Francis Bacon

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

— Bill Moyers

Being a parent means having an understanding and respecting your child's views and opinions.

— Anonymous

“Sometimes as parents, we go through things so that our children don't have to...”

— Tyreen King-Maddox

Kids who don't have a chance to do things in life are always kind of pushed aside, and left behind.

— Jason Taylor

Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.

— David Hartman

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

— Meryl Streep

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

— Anonymous

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become.

— Louise Hart

Children are pretty darn smart and capable if we give them space and structure to grow.

— Kim Brooks

Now children, this is a planetarium, not a Bangkok brothel, behave. - Mr Garrison

— South Park