Child Quotes · Page 102

“They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.”

— Mardy Grothe

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

— Jim Henson

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

— Raha Moharrak

Being a parent is not only a full time job, but a privilege that most people don't even realize.

— Anonymous

It has always been my dream to do Eurovision since I was a child.

— Saara Aalto

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

— Curtis Mayfield

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

— Tracy Morgan

Parents there are sometimes u need to be normal there are sometimes u need to be urself and the rest of the…

— Ritu Ghatourey

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an…

— Jerome Bruner

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

— Robert Breault

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

— Rajneesh

When you're moving your whole family you've got kids who've got to change nurseries, or schools for the older ones.

— Dwight Gayle

I was a child when I first saw 'Vertigo,' and it was very disturbing because I didn't really understand what was going…

— Allen Coulter

“This is what they need to see if they’ll ever be able to paint,” she says, her eyes smiling as she advocates…

— Richard Dahlstrom

“When a child is subjected to verbal attacks, she sees it not as something being done to her but as something she…

— Susan Forward

I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe…

— Kathryn Lasky

It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I…

— Bertie Carvel

“The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these…

— Mark Epstein

“No child, no matter what path they may have chosen, should be abandoned by the people who should love them the most.…

— S.L. Jennings

“More often than not, it’s disrespectful to them (our children) - and disrespectful to their struggle with their tasks in life- if…

— Daniel Gottlieb

Of course the thoughts and awareness are there, but it's all incomplete and often fanciful - kids know there's something to know,…

— Carolyn Hax

My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.

— Bebe Rexha

Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down.

— Anonymous

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

— Steve Carell

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

— Marilyn Manson

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

— Dave Barry

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

— Yasunari Kawabata

Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.

— Steven Wright

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Want to prove God is real, just look into the eyes of a newborn child

— Ash Sweeney

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

— Kate Morton

If you know somebody who's lost a child, do mention, 'how are you feeling?'

— Jason Watkins

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

— Louise Hay

“Human parents are probably really nice and let their kids stay up all day and do whatever they want.”

— Zack Zombie

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

— Ellie Goulding

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

— Barbara Walters