Child Quotes · Page 122

Who enjoys practising handstands at seven in the morning? But that's how children were trained in the old days.

— Sammo Hung

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

— Jodi Picoult

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

— Marianne Williamson

“...kids always know what's going on, even before you know yourself sometimes.”

— Cecelia Ahern

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

— Blake Lively

“Verbalizing has a soothing effect on the nervous systems of children. (Adults, too.)”

— John Medina

“A child should never go to bed, they only wake up a day older.”

— J. M. Barrie

There's no handbook to parenting, there's just opinions and statistics.

— Uncle Kracker

“You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives…

— Jill Eikenberry

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves…

— Marge M. Kennedy

“Children who observe an adult intentionally manipulating an object have a strong tendency to encode all of the adult's actions as meaningful.”

— David DiSalvo

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who…

— Marianne Williamson

To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you…

— Cormac McCarthy

When you think about it, the most important thing to a toy is to be played with by a child, and anything…

— Lee Unkrich

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to…

— Maya Angelou

“The first duty we owe a child is to teach him to fling out his inborn gladness and joy with the same…

— Orison Swett Marden

Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present…

— Bruno Bettelheim

'Free markets' is not a liberal or conservative issue. The rule of law is not a Right or Left issue. Those are…

— Dave Brat

So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind…

— Danielle Crittenden

Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change…

— Curtis Jackson

You want to have a loving, safe relationship with your child, but you can't because you have to do these things to…

— Jack Coleman

Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we…

— Jodi Benson

It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative…

— Johnathon Schaech

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

— Michael Josephson

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

— Shia LaBeouf

Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.

— Anonymous

Learn, learn, learn, and the sky is the limit for the young kids.

— Jeff Green

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

— Jennifer Beals

“You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

— Lilith Saintcrow

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.

— Lane Olinghouse

“Though my body gets older, I still commune with the child inside.”

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

— John Locke

“All that counts is that a child says at the end of the book, ‘Again!”

— Anonymous

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

— Neil Gaiman

“Either be a good parent to your career or just give your dream up for adoption.”

— Loren Weisman

There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

— Claire Messud

“One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.”

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

“I know it's beyond what you can bear, child. You must not try to carry this alone.”

— Rosslyn Elliott