“Spontaneity is the touch-stone: Observe a child's spontaneity and you see spirit in action.” — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess. — Jeanette MacDonald Copy Share Image
I'm actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn't have the sibling rivalry to draw from. — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
“How easily a parent’s motive could be misconstrued by an injured child.” — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always interested in woodworking and making things. — David Linley Copy Share Image
We are too busy growing up not realizing that our parents are getting old. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fostering is the most worthwhile and selfless act of love you can ever imagine. The children will teach you so much about… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
“Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.” — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going… — Constance Marie Copy Share Image
You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up —… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations,… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
“The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be preprogrammed to resist some parental manipulation… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was… — Ziad Doueiri Copy Share Image
