Child Quotes · Page 96

The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.

— Wayne Pacelle

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

— Jessye Norman

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

— Anais Nin

I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.

— Malala Yousafzai

Everything a parent chooses to do in their life will forever haunt their kids.

— Nadya Suleman

“Is there a child in the world who does not believe in magic?”

— Donald Allen Kirch

“Just because you are a child of God, that doesn’t mean you can act like a child." ~Renaud”

— Robert J.A. Gilbert

I make no apologies for informing parents of the expanded universal child care benefit.

— Pierre Poilievre

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it…

— Mary McCarthy

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A lot of people talk to kids like they're idiots. When I'm telling my two-year-old that you don't throw a dish on…

— David Walton

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

— Ernst Haeckel

“These days, kids are scheduled from morning to night because parents have demanded it, and London has been no exception.”

— Nicholas Sparks

When your 16 and have your niece in your arm and someone ask you is that your child then WORLD WE HAVE…

— Alexander Thompson

I try to stay out of my kids' way and kind of just let them discover things for themselves. Our job as…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I look at my parents the way mothers look at their toddlers. I take every chance to witness them undisturbed. To study…

— Kamand Kojouri

Children close their ears to advice but open their eyes to example. To inculcate good habits in children establish open communication, provide…

— Anil Sinha

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what…

— Emilia Clarke

People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and…

— Melissa Etheridge

“There is a fine line between friendship and parenting, and when that line is crossed, the result is often disastrous. A parent…

— R.A. Salvatore

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play…

— Meg Wolitzer

The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm]…

— Shefali Tsabary

When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more…

— Sandra Dodd

We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.

— Dean Devlin

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

— Anonymous

“Parents must model the kind of behavior they want to teach.”

— Jerry L. Wyckoff

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

— Ai Weiwei

“He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity…”

— J. Valor

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

— Neal Cassady

When you give a child the opportunity to learn, they always give back.

— Craig Kielburger

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

— Gail Godwin

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

— Peter Gallagher

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.

— Rodney Carrington

Just being able to be around your kid, I don't think anything can beat that.

— Terry Rozier

“Parents were meant to die for their children, not be the ones hurting them.”

— Natasha Preston

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

— Stanislaw Lem

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

— Henry Ward Beecher