Child Quotes · Page 129

I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn't occur to me.

— Bill Bailey

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them.

— Anonymous

“But the thing about having kids is: you can’t go to pieces; you just have to keep going.”

— Helen Fielding

“Nothing is wrong with you dear child. You are special, you are… a witch.”

— Margeaux Laurent

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

— Anonymous

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

— B. C. Forbes

Material things are not everything. Children learn what they live.

— Anonymous

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”

— John Locke

“Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.”

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is…

— Russell Baker

Families survive the Terrible Twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.…

— Paul Bloom

“You're not my real parents, every child has thought. I'm not your real child. But with orphans, it's true. What freedom, to…

— Margaret Atwood

“We should measure our children not by the mountains they conquer but by their efforts to climb. Oh - and let them…

— Ron Fournier

“parenting always involves this balance between what you know, what you guess, what you fear, and what you imagine.”

— Laurie Frankel

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there…

— Robert Breault

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead...…

— Ann Hood

A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a…

— T. Berry Brazelton

“Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children.…

— Judith Warner

When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a…

— Vernon Howard

“High-reactive children pay what one psychologist calls “alert attention” to people and things. They literally use more eye movements than others to…

— Susan Cain

Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Givi ng your children great opportunities is…

— Chip Ingram

When you have your own kid, it suddenly makes you more aware of how your parents treated you and educated you. Your…

— Juergen Teller

“I mention this because there is the question of how children become aware of what the world is, and how to act…

— Elizabeth Strout

I acted as a hobby when I was a child but wasn't initially very good at it.

— Tuppence Middleton

When you have a kid your life changes completely, it's not about you anymore.

— Nacho Figueras

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Parents are very strict to their daughters cause they think that were gonna raped wherever we go.

— Anonymous

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

— Richard Carlson

I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.

— Constance Marie

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

— Max Minghella

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

— Agatha Christie

I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.

— Benjamin Clementine

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

— Mayim Bialik

Being a stepparent is knowing when to step in, when to step back, when to step up, when to step out.

— Joe Buck

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

— Jack Nicholson

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

— Merton Miller

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

— Temple Grandin

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

— Dorothy Nolte