Child Quotes · Page 110

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

— Jeff Kinney

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

— Ban Ki-moon

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

— John Gardner

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

— Debbie Reynolds

“If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.”

— Sandeep Sahajpal

The most important thing for kids growing up today is the love of embracing change.

— Anonymous

The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing.…

— Mara Wilson

All children know when something is wrong and they can't understand something - they never need someone to tell them they're stupid.…

— Henry Winkler

“Parents do tend to judge each other. I don’t know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we’re doing? And…

— Liane Moriarty

Being a parent is such an awesome responsibility! A Blessing. But the unconditional love, fear, worry can be overwhelming at times.

— Anonymous

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement,…

— Anchee Min

The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious - and why you should cherish it while it lasts.

— Alex Hirsch

They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children…

— Anonymous

Before perfect times, if you enjoyed/ take a test of screw, rather than yourself is dangerous for social reputation of your parents.…

— Mak_786

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my…

— Michael Leunig

What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end,…

— Shirley Henderson

Living as we do in an over-stimulative world where kids are brought up on an all-you-can-eat buffet of technological gadgets, screens and…

— Ulrika Jonsson

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Although there are areas of overlap between working with psychotic and borderline children and with severely deprived children, some of the stresses…

— Ved P. Varma

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in…

— Marie-Chantal Claire

“Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't…

— Anne Lamott

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

— John Mason Brown

If you're a child, and you're on Broadway, you automatically know every other child in a production.

— Sadie Sink

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

— Hideo Kojima

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

— Robert Bloch

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

— Eleanor Farjeon

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

— Johnny Mercer

I your child grows into becoming, a complete stranger to you, then your parenting has been really bad

— Anonymous

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

— Maria Montessori

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

— Nelson Mandela

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

— Azzedine Alaia

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

— Sean Penn

And at some point who's to say that you cannot have sex with a child some point.

— Rush Limbaugh

Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.

— Jim Rohn

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

— Julian Fellowes

“Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.”

— Joan of Arc

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

— Ludwig van Beethoven