Child Quotes · Page 154

“And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was”

— Janice Hardy

I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.

— Nicholas Hoult

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

— Czeslaw Milosz

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.

— Pippa Evans

“Teach a child a useful skill. Build confidence and self-esteem that lasts a lifetime.”

— Sybrina Durant

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

— Ralph Steadman

If I knew the joy a child brings, I'd have become a mom earlier.

— Sasha Pivovarova

Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'

— Keren Woodward

Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still,…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get…

— John Irving

If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and…

— John W Holt Jr

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because…

— Maximillian Degenerez

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child,…

— Anna Quindlen

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and…

— Malcolm Gladwell

One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they…

— Phyllis Diller

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but…

— Kurt Braunohler

“We do not believe this. We claim—not on the basis of theory, but on the basis of our experiences with many children…

— Hans Asperger

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that…

— Mitch Albom

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things…

— Clive Owen

People are way too hard on themselves. Comparing yourself to other people can be damaging; the most important thing is just to…

— Liv Tyler

“Unless there was an open heart, and caring hands, and listening ears, the children will not be able to correct their steps…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

[When you have kids] you become much more - there are two things that happen. You recognize how fragile individuals are, and…

— Jon Stewart

Being a parent means loving your children , more than you've ever loved yourself.

— Troy Buckner

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

— Samuel Richardson

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.

— Pope Francis

We need to empower parents with the skills so that they can stay up to date on how to protect their families.

— Eric Adams

“The gravedigger's work is charming when done by a child.”

— Victor Hugo

Don't be afraid of giving kids responsibility, be there to guide & support them, not just to do things for them

— Kevin Heath

My mom is a total free-spirited hippie flower child. Always has been.

— Maria Brink

When you're with your kids everything else takes a back seat.

— Ross McCormack

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

— Matt Groening

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

— Anonymous

“P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Parents notice the matches between their kids and themselves more than the mismatches,”

— Anonymous

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

— Doug Larson

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

— Shiv Khera

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child

— Susan Smith