Child Quotes · Page 106

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

— Alan Bennett

Preacher's Daughter' was speaking on my experience in the church and as a child.

— Ethel Cain

Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.

— Julian Casablancas

Here's to the kids who just can't seem to get that person out of their head.

— Anonymous

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

— Kirstie Alley

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

— John Hall Wheelock

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

— Rosie Batty

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

— Kailash Satyarthi

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support…

— David Soul

“cultivation of a willingness to defy, debunk, or just plain old disappoint one’s parents, that is the absolute precondition, now more than…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who…

— Don Cheadle

“The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

— Joan Didion

I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty.…

— Kailash Satyarthi

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's…

— Lee Haney

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no…

— Tyra Banks

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to…

— Randy Pausch

Teach your children to listen carefully and to speak thoughtfully. The best way to teach this is to listen carefully and speak…

— Grace Llewellyn

Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things being equal,…

— John Ridley

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach…

— Walt Disney

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their…

— Joyce Maynard

“Your parent is not open to your thoughts, feelings, and ideas; does not relate to or care about your feelings; does not…

— Nina W. Brown

With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“The important factors in discipline are clarity, consistency, regularity, enforcibility and fairness. In adopting a code, first the parents agree to its…

— Jay E. Adams

I went through pain as a child so my children wouldn't have to.

— Chris Gardner

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

— Drew Barrymore

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

— Jonathan Tropper

Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

— Sam Levenson

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

— Peter Ustinov

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

— John Ruskin

I say parenting is like maths sum. You take one step, and your child takes another.

— Paritoshik Sharma

Sometimes, being a parent means being a loving caregiver. Other times: angry butler.

— Anonymous

One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.

— Jon Lovett

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

— Christy Turlington

Parents and families know best, and they should be in control of their individual child's education.

— Katie Britt

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

— Karin Slaughter

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

— David Sheff

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

— Jerry Lewis

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

— Alfred Adler