Child Quotes · Page 120

“It takes maturity to be able to laugh like a child again.”

— Moffat Machingura

It is saddening to see parents busy making money and their children losing out on a good life.

— Ravi Kishan

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.

— Zach Galifianakis

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

— Fanny Fern

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

— Rosie O'Donnell

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

— Patti Smith

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

— Penelope Leach

I've always wanted to be a singer, ever since I was a child.

— Lara Fabian

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, as we wrongly think, but that the imagination lives in…

— Gaston Bachelard

“If an album or a video game exerts more influence on your child's mind, then you must ask yourself: what kind of…

— Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra

“The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under…

— Charles Baudelaire

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the…

— Martin Seligman

If you put twenty parents in a room together, they will all have different parenting styles due to how they were raised…

— Cynthia Bailey

With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having…

— Ed Kowalczyk

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For…

— Hallie Ephron

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business…

— Dove Cameron

If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's…

— David Elkind

There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread,…

— Walt Whitman

“Hitting is never the best way to teach a child. Even in the case of real danger - as when a child…

— Peggy O'Mara

Think long and hard about the way you invest your children's time. Time is treasure. And where your time investment is, there…

— Anonymous

“we can choose to only worry about our own kids if we would like to, but unless we also choose to do…

— Darrell Roberts

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random.…

— Jason Mraz

“Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is…

— John Holt

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

— Rick Riordan

“I swear that child has more energy than a hummingbird on sweet tea.”

— Nancy Naigle

About children's caregivers ... you want someone who is loving but not so loving you're displaced.

— Kathleen Christensen

Practice makes perfect. How many times have parents uttered those words to encourage their children ¦?

— Vikrant Parsai

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

— Maria Montessori

I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.

— Big Boi

“a child will run fast alone and be slow with an elder, but they will go far.”

— Dr. El Doziego Francis

“Parenthood always has its individual structure. And it’s a risky business. You do your best.”

— J.D. Robb

The most valuable lesson you can teach your children is that life is about the unfolding of the conscious self.

— Shefali Tsabary

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

— Milan Kundera

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

— Allison Janney

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

— Janusz Korczak

It is not the text book but the text people that make a difference in the lives of children.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.

— Marlene Dietrich

Virtually everyone agrees that the marriage of a 13-year-old child is unconscionable.

— Chris Sununu