Child Quotes · Page 181

“You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.”

— Stephen King

The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

— Rick Nielsen

Let me say that I would never talk about anyone's child in a negative way.

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

I'm married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.

— Tina Fey

Sometimes being a parent means shutting off your child's Xbox before they beat you in multi-player mode.

— Anonymous

“Childhood is what we spend the rest of our lives getting over”

— Kristi Pelton

Companies know that children have disproportionate influence over their parents' purse strings.

— Sucheta Dalal

“There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.”

— Laurie Frankel

I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from…

— Matt Mullenweg

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands…

— Michael Chabon

It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar…

— Dervla Murphy

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to…

— Rachel Carson

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want…

— Beverly Cleary

“Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.”

— Robert Goolrick

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

— Richard Louv

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a…

— Melinda Gates

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us…

— L. Tom Perry

Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young…

— James L Hymes

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s,…

— Brian Skerry

“How do you choose between your kids and your parents? I feel like we're all just a bunch of vikings, moving around…

— Joe Coomer

When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really…

— Ronald D. Moore

“Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful, rigorous way is better.…

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to…

— Jenny Downham

The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship,…

— Dorothy H Cohen

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

— Steph McGovern

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

— Khloe Kardashian

“Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?”

— Florence King

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

— Maria Montessori

I really think some people have an aptitude for being parents while others don't.

— Reham Khan

I'm actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn't have the sibling rivalry to draw from.

— Aidan Gallagher

As a child, I was always interested in woodworking and making things.

— David Linley

We are too busy growing up not realizing that our parents are getting old.

— Anonymous

I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.

— Brian Tyree Henry

“How easily a parent’s motive could be misconstrued by an injured child.”

— Susan Vreeland

Even as a child, I knew what the symbol of the Congress was.

— Suresh Gopi

Sometimes it is a good thing to hear what kids have to tell you. Kids just tell the truth.

— Samir Nasri

“Spontaneity is the touch-stone: Observe a child's spontaneity and you see spirit in action.”

— Garry Fitchett

Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

— Mason Cooley

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

— Jeanette MacDonald

“The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.”

— Ross W. Greene