Child Quotes · Page 158

Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.

— Michael Rosen

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

— Annette Funicello

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

— Paula Poundstone

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

— Tommy Lee

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

— James Woods

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle.

— Hunter Tylo

Unfortunately, when you're a parent and you completely love your child, it can make you act a bit crazy.

— Ncuti Gatwa

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were…

— Lev Vygotsky

“Angry words might sometimes motivate children to do what you say, but a closer look reveals damaged family relationships. Short-term compliance comes…

— Scott Turansky

If you want to get your children's attention, just look real comfortable, talk on the phone,or try to have a conversation with…

— Anonymous

For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to…

— Osman Rashid

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a…

— Arfi Lamba

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

— Neil Gaiman

“When a child truly understands his grand potential, he looks to the stars not simply to make a wish but to chart…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It's a sad commentary when children feel they can talK to a stranger better than their own parents and ask him to…

— Lorne Greene

Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them.…

— Denis Waitley

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle.…

— Terry Pratchett

“These people we call Mom and Dad, they bring us into the world and then they don't follow through with what we…

— Matthew Quick

“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an independent business creator. In…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the…

— Bill Cosby

Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react…

— Kevin Heath

Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest…

— Richard J. Foster

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place…

— Anonymous

I don't really think kids care much these days - they just tell you to f*** off.

— Robbie Fowler

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

— Andrea Bocelli

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

— Keith Urban

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have

— Carol Ann Duffy

“The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.”

— Claire Cross

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

— Christiane Amanpour

Being a parent means treasuring every moment. Also you will never be able to go to the bathroom alone again.

— Anonymous

“Our children make us so vulnerable. Our parents too, I suppose.”

— Sara Sheridan

“A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.”

— Steven Pressfield

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

— Astrid Lindgren

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

— Katharine Whitehorn

“A child is not in training to be a person but is one already.”

— Linda Dobson

Love your parents. We're so busygrowing up, we often forget theyare growing older too.

— Anonymous

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

— Vladimir Putin

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

— Maria Montessori

Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

— Mary Engelbreit