Child Quotes · Page 87

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

— Penn Dayton Badgley

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

“Children are sponges, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction.”

— Asa Don Brown

“The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.”

— Richard Kelly

If we all could see the world through eyes of a child, we would see the magic in everything.

— Chee Vai Tang

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

— Hector Hugh Munro

A child breaks the shell of a snail but not the shell of a tortise.

— African Proverb

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

— Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps we can never understand our own children, because there is too much of ourselves inside there, or perhaps we are just…

— Dinty W. Moore

Some ways are the ways we were taught, and those ways could be the wrong ways. You can always out do your…

— Kevin McCarty

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank…

— Joseph Priestley

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us…

— Michael Jackson

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a…

— David Sobel

“...parents unconsciously start very early to teach girls how to be, that baby girls are given less room and more rules and…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

A child deserves love, affection, the chance to just play and do nothing, to sit under a tree, read a book, dream…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone…

— Lindsay Wagner

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It…

— Frank Shorter

“What to us looks like independence is really just dependence transferred. We are in such a hurry for our children to be…

— Gordon Neufeld

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always…

— Maya Angelou

“When we are children our families take care of our basic survival needs; they are also our first and most important sources…

— Susan Forward

“For some parents, having children meant full absolution from any future mistakes. My father wouldn't permit himself to be wrong. He shifted…

— Amber Dermont

In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get…

— Sheena Iyengar

You have to empathize with your children. If you love them, you never really get too angry with them when they make…

— Terry Crews

The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

— Victor Ponta

You'll do anything for your child and that's what I'm doing.

— Eric Reid

There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.

— John Lithgow

“What has become of the world, when children are looked upon by their parents as trophies to be won?”

— Donald Allen Kirch

If you have children happiness should always come your way, your kids should be the only happiness there is .

— Kia Watson

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

— Bob Seger

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

— Mark Haddon

The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

— Bill Crawford

Children who get everything they ask for seldom succeed in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

It's different when your son is not typical, and you have to deal with him and handle him every single day.

— O. T. Genasis

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

— C.M. Stunich

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

— Kathryn Hahn

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

— Kevin Spacey

“To train a child in the way he should go, the trainer has to be in front of the same way providing…

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

— Horace Mann

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

— Anand Sharma