Child Quotes · Page 175

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

— Peter Block

“Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”

— Mitch Albom

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

— Robert Breault

You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you.

— Gillian Flynn

The child who is given everything he asks for usually wont succeed in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

ThanKs To OtheR PeopLe's ChiLdrEn,Ma LifE F-CkeD uP,trulLY a B-tCh

— Enkudie

Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

— Robert Rodriguez

I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it.

— Juergen Teller

Kids have a way of letting you know if they like something or not. If a child of five says she doesn't…

— Sushmita Sen

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my…

— Paul Giamatti

I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a…

— Philip Treacy

“The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn’t know and couldn’t do.”

— Alison Gopnik

Kids can relate to having some scary person living near their house. They can relate to, 'Hey, don't go near that house.'…

— Fred Willard

Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them.

— Pamela Druckerman

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.…

— James Dean

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of…

— W. H. Auden

“If you have children, trust them completely, all the time, no matter what. If you don't trust them, pretend that you do.…

— Lisa Moore

There is a period in your life when you need your parents and a period in your life where you only think…

— Frank Skinner

“They are our children. We owe it to them to arm them with good knowledge, model healthy relationships, and understand that the…

— Mark T. Arsenault

“In a moment he saw by the light of the gas that the child was still there. “God be praised!” said he,…

— Guy de Maupassant

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to…

— Robert Casey

“The trouble with denying children the freedom to be themselves—with forcing them into an idea of what they should be, not allowing…

— Seanan McGuire

“Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all…

— William Devane

“I imagine my parents would very much relish having an angel for a son. Who, after all, would not?”

— Sonya Hartnett

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her…

— Benjamin Disraeli

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

— Woodrow Wilson

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

— Anonymous

More of our kids are graduating than ever before. More of our people are insured than ever before.

— Barack Obama

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

— Halle Berry

“As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.”

— Carew Papritz

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

— Malala Yousafzai

My mother learnt Mohiniyattam as a child, and my father loved singing.

— Parvathy

Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them.

— Anonymous

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

When I look at my daughter now, I see another facet of myself, I see my own inimitable child.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Here's to the kids that go to bed every night with tears in their eyes and death in their hearts.

— Anonymous

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

— Deborah Harkness

Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

— Noelle Stevenson

Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.

— James Nesbitt