Child Quotes · Page 173

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

— Henry Rollins

“Hadley knows this isn’t some Disney movie. Her parents aren’t ever getting back together”

— Jennifer E. Smith

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

— Patti Smith

To think of your creations in terms of better or worse- big mistake. They are your children.

— Jay Sankey

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

— Brené Brown

Often parents know what's best for their kids without having to learn from others.

— Spencer Matthews

When you want something that is very dear to you, somewhere along the line, you become the child.

— Adnan Sami

“Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.”

— Liane Moriarty

Childhood is all about innocence. Being constantly surrounded by cameras and shutterbugs, makes children lose that innocence. It's terrifying and worrying, to…

— Soha Ali Khan

“You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from…

— Colleen Hoover

“Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in…

— Jean Thompson

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without…

— Timothy Carey

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

— Kailash Satyarthi

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

— Anonymous

Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be…

— Ruth Ozeki

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live…

— Betty Smith

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child.…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together.…

— Julie Anne Peters

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours,…

— Kat Edmonson

I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear. Yet do you care what your children…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“THEY ARE CHILDREN!’ Mr Wallaker roared. ‘They are not corporate products! What they need to acquire is not a constant massaging of…

— Helen Fielding

I remain as committed as ever to working across party lines with anyone who believes we must invest in the future of…

— Jim Himes

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

— Rachel Lambert Mellon

If I back down from this company, how can I get my kids to believe me when I tell them they can…

— David Steward

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

— Anonymous

When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.

— Ali Wong

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Children often overestimate their importance in the parent's life”

— Altaf Tyrewala

It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you for…

— Martina McBride

“Such a little child To send to be a priestling... Icy poverty”

— Shiki

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

— Jackie Chan

If your man enough to knock her up. You better be man enough to support the child.

— Vanessa

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

— Gore Vidal

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

— Deborah Sampson

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession,…

— Charles Spurgeon

The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

— Anonymous

I maintained a diary when I was a child and had all the happenings jotted down.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush