Child Quotes · Page 261

As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic…

— Kate Middleton

The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the…

— Michael Sandel

“I think so many people treat special needs kids so different from all of the other kids that sometimes it makes them…

— Kim Holden

Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just…

— Miranda Hart

When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not…

— Diana Quick

“A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up." "But though…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“Much of the control exerted by the caregiver is accomplished through being indirect, such as implying expectations. The caregiver may tell the…

— Elliot Greene

“Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks; One burnt her daddy up and then there were six. Six little crazy kids playing…

— Michael Thomas Ford

“Let's teach that loving isn't always loving. Like when you loved the hamster so much that it died. Some adults do that…

— Deborah Ainslie

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers,…

— Dixie Carter

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down…

— Deborah Moggach

The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of…

— Tucker Max

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies…

— Kahlil Gibran

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed…

— Edie Falco

We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by…

— Jeff B. Davis

We put so much pressure on ourselves as parents to be able to do everything, but children are very grateful and understanding.…

— Liv Tyler

Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're…

— Frank O'Hara

“We want him to see that as a result of being parented by imperfect parents, he (she) chooses the wrong people for…

— Karl A. Menninger

“As children develop, their brains "mirror" their parent's brain. In other words, the parent's own growth and development, or lack of those,…

— Daniel J. Siegel

You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk…

— Frank Wolf

As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“Here's to the kids who are different, The kids who don't always get A's, The kids who have ears twice the size…

— Digby Wolfe

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or…

— Natasha Lyonne

“When we spoil something, we deny it the conditions it requires. . . . The real spoiling of children is not in…

— Barbara Nicholson

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They…

— Jane Goodall

“This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative…

— John Holt

“Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play,…

— Michio Kaku

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive…

— Jean de la Bruyere

If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his…

— Ferran Adria

The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“This was Josie’s preferred method of parenting: go someplace like this, with grand scale and much to be discovered, and watch your…

— Dave Eggers

Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every…

— T. Berry Brazelton

“A child does what she does in order to meet her own needs. When we validate her feelings, find out what her…

— Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko

“There’s a general sense now that children’s rights, children’s needs, children’s wants and desires have taken on too prominent a place in…

— Judith Warner

We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach…

— John Holt

“This is a book for those of you who want to be parents as well as people, who don't want to feel…

— Brett Berk

the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs…

— Shulamith Firestone

I want my children to be bold,free,self-reliant and capable of changing the phase of that portion of the earth where they live.…

— Amun Djoleto