Child Quotes · Page 141

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

— Martin Mull

“The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.”

— Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

“Like any woman, Elena knew that there are three things you cannot upstage: a child, an animal, and a faggot.”

— Joyce Haber

“Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.”

— Jodi Picoult

Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

— Anonymous

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

— John Irving

It is not what you leave FOR your children.It is what you leave IN your children.

— Anonymous

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

— Jules Feiffer

I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.

— Rob Reiner

My parents taught me about the mistakes that they made. At the end of the day, it worked out pretty good for…

— Carlos Correa

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and…

— Mark Twain

“A child with minimal video and TV exposure... might be more naive about social ills but at the same time more sophisticated…

— Diane Medved

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

— Asha Bhosle

There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost…

— Beck Bennett

Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They…

— Michael Strahan

“Start working on your child’s mind. Start building your child’s character. Raise your child as a human being, instead of raising boys…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Anger is a normal human emotion and all children experience it to some degree, but many parents have difficulty dealing with it.…

— Susan Forward

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks…

— Haruki Murakami

“1. INTENSITY: The loud, dramatic spirited children are the easiest to spot. They don’t cry; they shriek. They’re noisy when they play,…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of…

— Selma Fraiberg

You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message…

— Daniel Goleman

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the…

— Jody Williams

What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

— Kay Thompson

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

— Michael Leunig

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

— Gerry Adams

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

— Terry McMillan

The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.

— Danny Kaye

You've Got to Know...A Child Will Ask Questions, that Even a Wise Man Can Not Answer

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Like many parents, they equated normality with being happy and productive.”

— Daniel Tammet

Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.

— Bertie Carvel

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

— Jodi Picoult

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

— Wes Fesler

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

— Karisma Kapoor

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

— Bill Watterson

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

— Pablo Casals

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

— Billy Corgan

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

— Marco Pierre White