Child Quotes · Page 136

Every child deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a child

— Anonymous

“It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.”

— Fredrik Backman

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

— Kiki Dee

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

— Pat Conroy

“You must be committed to your children first. Otherwise, they will receive the leftovers.”

— Lorilyn Roberts

“I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

— Shawn Amos

Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares…

— Jeroo Billimoria

“Mistakes are part of life. And yet, for some reason, most parents in this world, wish their children made no mistakes at…

— Lukasz Laniecki

“For parents who do not want children questioning their values are not parents who love their children, but rather, who love themselves…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet,…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

If a kid is born into a tough situation with no means of dealing with it, you end up with kids who…

— Big Narstie

You should be an example for your children. I show my three children what I am and expect them to live by…

— K. J. Yesudas

“It is marvelous to see the raw play of emotions on the face of a child. No trying to conceal any feeling…

— Jessica Brockmole

Some of what we're learning suggests a balance between exposing children to new things, yet giving them a chance to repeatedly experience…

— Kevin Maney

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with…

— Nhat Hanh

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted,…

— Laura Moriarty

“Just as this scale predicted the future health and happiness of the children in this study, so does knowing and telling our…

— Desmond Tutu

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to.…

— Ann Landers

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents,…

— Ursula Hegi

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be…

— Anonymous

“We simply must accept that they are loaned to us for a time and then they are released into adulthood. When we…

— Meg Meeker

“2. PERSISTENCE: If an idea or an activity is important to them, spirited children can “lock” right in. They are committed to…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

“...they speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement...”

— Isabel Wilkerson

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!

— Henry Handel Richardson

“A modern child could teach old Hepzibah more than old Hepzibah could teach the child.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

— Yves Rossy

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

— Raha Moharrak

Being a parent is not only a full time job, but a privilege that most people don't even realize.

— Anonymous

It has always been my dream to do Eurovision since I was a child.

— Saara Aalto

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

— Curtis Mayfield

“We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.”

— Norman Spinrad

Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

“By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.”

— Mardy Grothe

“They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.”

— Erica Bauermeister

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

— Jim Henson

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

— Rajneesh

“When children meet other children, they have to do something -- fight or play.”

— Lavinia Greenlaw

“If we could only go back and knock some sense into those kids we once were.”

— Samantha Young