Child Quotes · Page 179

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.

— Lynn

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

— Pythagoras

Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.

— Claudia Jones

For any parent, all they want is for their child to be safe and cared for.

— Ncuti Gatwa

“These were kids for whom simple self-destruction wasn't enough.”

— Chuck Hogan

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

— Kellie Martin

“Your children have enough friends...they need a parent!”

— Robert Gioia

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

— Eartha Kitt

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to…

— Nancy Friday

Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

— Laura Z. Hobson

As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child…

— Al Sharpton

You can give them the opportunity to thrive, but when it comes to finding happiness or success, kids are really on their…

— Rachel Simmons

If you parents teaching them to leave the house and forced to give away your age it's the fault of the, They…

— Mak_786

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

— Anonymous

I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity…

— Marilynne Robinson

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

— Jon Lee Anderson

When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my mind…

— Henry B. Eyring

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have…

— David Suzuki

The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great…

— John Locke

“If you want to bring forth grit in your child, first ask how much passion and perseverance you have for your own…

— Angela Duckworth

Many parents worry that theywill reinforce a fear by being overly sympathetic. It helps toknow that when children are permitted to avoid…

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

“Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a…

— Sydney J. Harris

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an…

— Kurt Sutter

For a child that feels lost, confused and out of place, they need help.

— Will Cain

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

— Dennis Miller

Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!

— Alison Gopnik

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

— Maria Montessori

“The innocent curiosity of children gives them astounding courage.”

— Plague Jack

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Children are likely to do what you do than to do what you say...

— Anonymous

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

— Dennis Miller

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

— Philip Johnson

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

— Anonymous

I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.

— Peter Dinklage

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

— Anonymous

And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

— Laura Nyro

Kids are like farts, you don't mind your own, but others are unbearable.

— Anonymous

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

— Andy Serkis

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

— Karl Kraus