Child Quotes · Page 74

Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.

— Frederick Lenz

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

— Andrew Solomon

A child of five would understande this. Go fetch a child of five.

— Oilvia

A man never stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child.

— Mara Wilson

“There are many ways to knock a child’s confidence, and none of them justifiable.”

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

Kids haven't changed since my day except they are more hip.

— Jackie Coogan

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early…

— Samuel Adams

“For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For…

— Hallie Ephron

I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as…

— Gina Bellman

To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really…

— Stephen Baker

Children hop around Phylakopi on sea-polished pebbles the size of bean bags and bask themselves, alongside the lizards, astride the sturdily built…

— Bettany Hughes

There are responsibilities which are parental responsibilities and those are the types of things we prepare the next generation for, but no…

— Maggie Smith

Attitudes of optimism, of "let them be", and of joy in watching and helping another life develop and blossom will help parents…

— Timothy Carey

As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are…

— Robert Winston

The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to…

— Emma Donoghue

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but…

— Kahlil Gibran

“When you hate your parents or dislike certain traits that they have, you are actually giving them more attention and directing your…

— Yong Kang Chan

“7. ENERGY: The tales of spirited kids I hear from parents are truly amazing, like that of the two-week old baby that…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead…

— Clyde Edgerton

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

— Ann Landers

A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.

— Gloria Estefan

“A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.”

— Ken Follett

“Don’t be so concerned with raising a good kid, that you forget you already have one.”

— M. Conley

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

— Alfie Kohn

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

— Alan Menken

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

— Candace Wheeler

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

— Jane Gardam

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

— Natalie Dormer

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

— Jeffrey Archer

Children are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

— Nicole Maines

If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

— Keith Emerson

Being a parent is not an easy job, which is why we try to create cartoons parents know are safe for their…

— Butch Hartman

“Lord Fellmotte was not a man. He was an ancient committee. A parliament of deathly rooks in a dying tree.”

— Frances Hardinge

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

— Anonymous