Child Quotes · Page 160

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

— Bob Gibson

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

“Children are sponges, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction.”

— Asa Don Brown

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

— L. Frank Baum

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

— Jon Krakauer

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

— Lemn Sissay

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

— George Bernard Shaw

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

— Walt Disney

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do…

— Boman Irani

“Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to…

— Ramani Durvasula

Always make sure to treat your parents with respect to make up for the years of hell you put them through as…

— Melchor Lim

I'm not going to change my whole life because I've got children - until, obviously, they have to go to school, and…

— Charlotte Crosby

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there…

— Suzanne La Follette

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust…

— June Jordan

Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.

— Mark Jenkins

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've…

— Daley Thompson

You can rear children in an antagonistic environment or in a facilitative one with a good combination of love and discipline. It's…

— Christiana Figueres

“This addition produces a two-by-two matrix: parenting is authoritative (high demand, high responsiveness), authoritarian (high demand, low responsiveness), permissive (low demand, high…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult…

— Jackie Earle Haley

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to…

— Rachel Blanchard

Up to the age of five, children should be given a lot of love. From the age of five to fifteen they…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to…

— Patti Smith

If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something…

— Barbara Coloroso

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

— Alison Gopnik

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

— Nipsey Hussle

When your children are an option rather than a priority, prepare yourself for the consequences.

— Nishan Panwar

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

— Katherine Anne Porter

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to.

— Margaret Atwood

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

— Andy Andrews

If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause…

— Will Rogers

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

— Julia Butterfly Hill

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

— J. G. Holland

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don't have them at all.

— John Kennedy

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

— Anonymous

“Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.”

— Bill Cosby

“Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.”

— Heather Schuck

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

— LeAnn Rimes