Child Quotes · Page 134

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

— Rachel Carson

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

— George Will

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

— Kingsley Amis

“No, child. I'm old enough and cold enough; the hottest day won't thaw me”

— Ray Bradbury

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

— Natasha Leggero

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

— Lorraine Toussaint

The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.

— Caterina Fake

My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully;…

— Sadie Jones

“Child development does not mean developing your child into the person you think they should be, but helping them develop into the…

— Toni Sorenson

“In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally…

— A.G. Phillips

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

— David Jeremiah

“Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

— Maurice Saatchi

I think, along with the great joy and excitement of having a child, it seems to be that the common themes are…

— Chris Sullivan

As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to…

— Dawna Markova

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn…

— Kevin DeYoung

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young…

— Alison Gopnik

“As our children turn even five or six degrees away from us, we have to be aware of our fear and our…

— Daniel Gottlieb

I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long…

— Bill Callahan

“When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us…

— Cheryl Strayed

I will tell them that you can work hard, you can improve your life and the lives of your children in one…

— Mia Love

Everyone wants their children to go to school, to have a job, a roof over their head, feed their children.

— Charley Boorman

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

— Wes Fesler

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To teach children to be critical thinkers, confident in being who they are, active learners and happy.

— Anonymous

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

— Anonymous

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

— Robert Breault

“When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear.”

— M.L. Stedman

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“At the end of time is a child who learns what love is.”

— VD

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

— Claire Danes

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.

— Kate Garraway

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears”

— Ellen Goodman

“Nothing can warm a human soul better than a hug from a child.”

— Trish Parr

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.

— Mark Hunt

I followed my dream as a child and I'm loving every minute of it.

— Susie Wolff

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

— Robert Breault