Child Quotes · Page 88

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'

— Shel Silverstein

You don't raise kids. You raise carrots. You sponsor kids.

— Jess Lair

I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that.

— Zazie Beetz

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

— Warren Farrell

“Three-year-olds, however, have the added disadvantage of a biological lack of impulse control.”

— Sarah Ockwell-Smith

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

— Ogden Nash

“playing at the entrance of the hut. “Whose children are these?” he asked.”

— Peter Rollins

“You are a child of the universe Come to choose how to live here. You are a child of the universe Loved…

— Jay Woodman

If someone told my parents that their oldest child was going to be a major league pitcher, they wouldn't have believed it.

— John Smoltz

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is…

— Dave Barry

“If we want to give our children what they need to thrive, we must honor their basic nature- boyish or girlish, introverted…

— Wendy Mogel

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and…

— Ruth Rendell

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children…

— Iain Duncan Smith

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not…

— Barbie Ferreira

“he mentions that boys being spanked may experience incidental penile sensations (if held face down across the lap of the adult, or…

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“People with an entertaining rigid structure are brought up in environments in which the parents are uncomfortable with expressing feelings. This is…

— Elliot Greene

Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are…

— Luc de Clapiers

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof…

— Fred Rogers

“Emotional honesty, not perfection, is what children truly need from their parents. Children are always observing how you feel anger, joy, frustration,…

— Jessica Joelle Alexander

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I think very often when we think we are aiming at the best for our children, what we are really doing is…

— Michael Sandel

Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont…

— Michael Jackson

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

— Steve Schirripa

I won Wimbledon when I was 19 and again after I had a child.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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

— Francis Bacon

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

— Alice Walker

I was the only female in the special trials unit for many years.

— Marcia Clark

Parents, not governments, should decide what is best for their family.

— Richard Grenell

“On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.”

— Jane Austen

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if…

— Mallory Jansen

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

— Joan of Arc

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

— Johnny Hunt

Parents shouldn't tell their kids to dream big if they're stupid. Don't give them false hope.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When we agree to be parents, we have to accept the good and the bad.

— Hilaria Baldwin

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

— Cleveland Amory

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

— Rohinton Mistry

I don't have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco