Child Quotes · Page 165

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

She said, tell me, are you a Christian, child? I said, Ma'am, I am tonight.

— Marc Cohn

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

— Nellie McKay

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

— Anonymous

The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

— Louise Erdrich

We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

— Alistair Begg

“Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.”

— Criss Jami

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

— Karl Kraus

I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

— Anne Lamott

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what…

— Hilary Duff

“Elderly parents depend on love and respect for their physical and emotional health. Many times, that love is only available through companion…

— YouInMindHCS

Your creative life can continue to just turn inside out and evolve in ways that you can't possibly imagine, whether or not…

— Kathryn Hahn

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

— Noah Webster

When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore…

— Ina May Gaskin

At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good…

— Brigham Young

Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a…

— Kelly Macdonald

“Basically, attention follows attachment. The stronger the attachment, the easier it is to secure the child's attention. When attachment is weak, the…

— Gabor Maté

We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need…

— Martin Seligman

You become responsible for a human being, and a lot of people talk about how they've never felt love like this before.…

— Cobie Smulders

“What’s cool about really little kids is that they don’t say stuff to try to hurt your feelings, even though sometimes they…

— R.J. Palacio

Healthy parenting is nothing if not a process of empowerment. As we help to raise our children's self-esteem, we also increase their…

— Louise Hart

We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's…

— Darell Hammond

“. . . Mrs. Lambchop sighed and shook her head. "You're at the office all day, having fun," she said. "You don't…

— Jeff Brown

When you have a child, your relationship with every child in the world changes. It's like you're in a club you didn't…

— Matt Damon

“Children (or adults) do not/cannot learn while under stress.”

— Terry Marselle

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

It's hard to find a way to be good to your husband, be good to your kid, and be good to yourself.

— Busy Philipps

Look up the meaning of Parenting. Control is not a part of its definition, so stop trying to control children!

— Rey Mellomida

I wanted young people to know that I was just a typical child.

— John Lewis

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

— Anna Freud

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

— James Randi

I wore a dress as a child for six months and I wouldn't take it off. I was three. I've seen the…

— Mathew Horne

Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child.

— Gwendoline Christie

There's nothing wrong with people that have four or five kids, it's just not for us.

— Jessie James Decker

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

— Jonathan Krohn

Any Child Brought In The World Is A, BLESSING not a MISTAKE..

— Ritu Ghatourey

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,

— L. Frank Baum

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

— Edgar Guest

Too many people treat parenting like it's the 20th item on their to-do list.

— John Kennedy