Child Quotes · Page 117

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

From a very young age, parents are pushing their boys to achieve in a way they don't always do for girls.

— Alice Roberts

One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.

— Sue Perkins

I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.

— Jack Benny

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

— M. Russell Ballard

“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

— Nicolas Cage

“The child must be given activities that encourage independence, and he must not be served by others in acts he can learn…

— Paula Polk Lillard

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was…

— Donald Cram

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as…

— Bette Davis

I think it's very important for children to understand that women work and that it's fulfilling, and it doesn't mean that they…

— Anna Wintour

“We can’t get away with anything with children. They are keen and attentive, and they will eventually grow up to tell the…

— Sarah Mae

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle…

— Tess Gerritsen

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new…

— Erik Erikson

Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would…

— Stefano Gabbana

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and…

— Brene Brown

“My job, as I saw it, was to teach the children how to live within homes and communities. They had to learn…

— Marty MacCraken

It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes…

— Selma Fraiberg

“The…destructive…message is that the parents don’t trust their children to do what they are supposed to do whether it be learning to…

— Lysa TerKeurst

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own…

— Sri Aurobindo

“Remember, there’s a huge difference between angry feelings and angry actions. Yes, you have to discourage misbehavior, but it’s superimportant that your…

— Harvey Karp

So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all…

— Malcolm Turnbull

“All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied…

— Anne Rice

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

— Amy Vanderbilt

“You know you have succeeded as a parent when you find yourself taking advice from your children.”

— Raymond C. Nolan

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became...

— Walt Whitman

The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.

— Laurence J. Peter

“ I was a child of wealth, expected to do nothing but everything.”

— Alessandra Torre

“Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

— Chris Burke

I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child.

— Robert Kazinsky

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

— Frank Herbert

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

— Navya Nair

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

— Moises Arias

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

— Willa Cather

The strength it takes to love, mold, and nurture a child should be honored every single day.

— Raheem DeVaughn

No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere.

— Prince

The child in each of us must be nurtured - that often makes us the best.

— Maurizio Sarri

Give your children all the time and energy. They need to be your number one priority.

— Sridevi