Child Quotes · Page 80

So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.

— Nia Long

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

— Hill Harper

“The children were not begging. Rather they were imploring us to pick them up.”

— Anthony Cleary

“Besides, when it came to being colorful...we invisible kids learned to carry our colors on the inside”

— Paul Dini

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

— Ziggy Marley

Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

— Mason Cooley

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

— Robin Quivers

I guess you're not gonna be happy til' it's for real. Four year old kids, doing drive-bys on Big Wheels.

— Big Daddy Kane

Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with…

— Julianne Moore

Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

— Paul Hauck

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which…

— Sun Myung Moon

Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to…

— Marilyn Manson

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares,…

— Ruth Buzzi

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to…

— Marianne Wiggins

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but…

— Sebastian Coe

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it.…

— Mayim Bialik

“Anne Frank wrote, ‘How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only…

— James Patterson

“Not everyone knows how to be a good parent. Not everyone knows the right things to do or the right things to…

— Leticia Rae

A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know…

— Polly Berrien Berends

Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it's also about whomever you're parenting your child with. So there is a…

— Anna Getty

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay…

— John Battelle

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that…

— Mitch Albom

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much…

— Lysander Spooner

“the child of a supermom who gets lots of extra tutoring and one-on-one support is going to do way better than an…

— Paul Tough

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

— Tony Danza

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

— Cindy Crawford

There is no such thing as a bad kid only kids who make bad choices

— Anonymous

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

— Tori Amos

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

— Lucille Ball

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

— Roy Barnes

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

— Honore de Balzac

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

— Ann Landers

Before you have kids you can't even fathom what it really is.

— Jason McCourty

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.”

— Joan of Arc

Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.

— Jim Rohn

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

— Julian Fellowes

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

— Azzedine Alaia

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

— Nelson Mandela

And at some point who's to say that you cannot have sex with a child some point.

— Rush Limbaugh