Child Quotes · Page 171

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

— Dorothy Nolte

I think it is a great idea for people to look at the reality of raising children at a young age.

— Jo Frost

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

— Ivan Turgenev

“However we treat the child, the child will treat the world.”

— Pam Leo

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

— Katrina Kenison

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

— Epictetus

Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.

— Francis M. Lyman

If you can prevent one fight among your children, let it be the fight for your attention.

— Wes Fesler

It's absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization - be it an elementary school, daycare, or community center - provide its children with…

— Darell Hammond

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

— Mary Oliver

Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

— Shmuley Boteach

“But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says “I am,” and…

— Diana Gabaldon

I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that…

— Anonymous

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

— Robert Breault

Children hates parents advice but you have to know their love must be hide in their advice so take parents advice positively.

— Myself

What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of…

— Pablo Casals

Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the…

— Edith Schaeffer

“Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its…

— Lukasz Laniecki

We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get…

— Dan Buettner

The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having…

— Anonymous

Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained…

— John Berger

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as…

— Laura Riding

“I think that every one , no matter how many troubles the may have when he grows up, ought to have a…

— Jean Webster

“he admitted that he had projected his ideas of how life should go based on the route he had taken himself. He…

— Tig Notaro

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

— Ishmael Beah

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

— Maria Montessori

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

— Laura Schlessinger

“We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.”

— Cassandra Clare

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

— Astrid Lindgren

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed...

— Eugene Ionesco

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

— Maurice Sendak

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”

— Heather O'Neill

To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child.

— Sushmita Sen

“I thought you wanted to help the child. I’ll help her to help herself. That is my way.”

— Terry Pratchett

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

— Raymond Duncan

Children may close their ears to advice, but they keep their eyes open to example.

— Sarah Moores

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

— Heraclitus

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

— Dick Clark

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

— Faye Wattleton