Child Quotes · Page 116

“Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.”

— Bruce Lansky

As a child I wanted to be a kind of hybrid of Ferris Beuller, Ace Ventura, Bette Midler, and Lucille Ball.

— Mae Martin

Being a parent means praying you children will grow, while wishing they could stay little forever.

— Anonymous

“Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

— Magic Johnson

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot teach somebody how to relate to the kids, they have to come with it.

— Martin Haberman

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

— Penelope Leach

That's the point I'm trying to get across in 'Little': Kids can do anything, and that's how adults need to see things,…

— Marsai Martin

I've been obsessed with the Kennedys since I was a child, and Bobby Kennedy is, hands down, my favorite among them.

— Emily Giffin

Parents...When we are talking to them, they will either ignore or listen. So dont blame the child if they are being stubborn…

— Anonymous

You want your kids to grow up in a world that's better than the one you grew up in. I'm not talking…

— J. J. Redick

I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have…

— Darell Hammond

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image…

— Gary Bauer

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges…

— Steve Carell

I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant…

— Emilia Fox

“Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there…

— Jodi Picoult

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who…

— Sandra Scarr

We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of…

— Heywood Broun

I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've…

— David Ferry

The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away…

— Paula Garces

“It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a…

— George Orwell

“After you have planned each detail of an activity, organized a tray of materials, and practiced with them, you can model a…

— Paula Polk Lillard

There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left…

— Frank Pittman

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.

— L. Tom Perry

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

— Orson Bean

You look at these kids...thousands and thousands of kids...and you stop and think, how can you not care?

— Curtis R. Welling

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

— Anonymous

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

— William Godwin

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

— Robert Breault

Cross the line if you're not having respect anymore to one of your parents and it's all their own fault.

— Anonymous

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

— Thomas A. Edison

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

— Norman Macleod

If you don't give kids the middle finger when their parents are not looking, we can't be friends.

— Nikhil Saluja

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

— Henry Ward Beecher

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

— Maria Montessori

“is managed can have an enormous impact on the way a child feels about herself and about the world.”

— Ellyn Satter

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

— Robert Winston

It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have.

— Paul Pierce