Child Quotes · Page 139

“plage, various seaside chairs and stools supported the parents”

— Vladimir Nabokov

We don't infantilize our kids. If they ask us a question that's tough, we answer it honestly.

— Jason Jones

Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.

— Timothy Olyphant

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

— Sandra Dodd

“You can not lead a child to a place of healing if you do not know the way yourself.”

— Karyn Purvis

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

— Celine Dion

The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

— Maria Montessori

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

— Richard Louv

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves;…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we…

— Harlan Coben

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains…

— Larry Elder

The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with…

— Harlan Lane

“Look, it’s not his fault,” Paul Jobs told the teachers, his son recalled. “If you can’t keep him interested, it’s your fault.”

— Anonymous

“We protect children from danger, real and imaginary, and are then surprised when they go to college and create safe spaces designed…

— Jean M. Twenge

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

— Hunter S. Thompson

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking…

— Bertrand Russell

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she…

— Shilpa Shetty

It turns out, all the studies show you invest a little time in another person's life, often a younger person, and all…

— John Prendergast

Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and…

— Dav Pilkey

Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such…

— Vidya Balan

“Being a parent, there’s always that niggling fear, that notion that maybe one day your child will realize you’re not all-knowing, not…

— wildbow

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love…

— Jessye Norman

“Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.”

— Leo Tolstoy

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

— Fred Rogers

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

— Rihanna

Few experiences help our kids discover the distinction between needs and wants like the great outdoors.

— Ben Sasse

Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

— Cesar Millan

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.”

— Nikita Dudani

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

— Mark Twain

“Inconsistent parenting creates confusion. When I'm pitting mom against dad, they never know what to expect.”

— Bauvard

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

— Tom Robbins

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

— Benjamin Spock

Little Boy's performance is authentic, natural, moving & inspiring.

— Eva Longoria

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play.

— Albert Einstein

“Just B" is for the little ones who know how to perfectly just be.”

— Melody Kloepfer

“They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.”

— Khalil Gibran

There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future...

— Alma Powell