Child Quotes · Page 184

Africans more concerned with being disciplinarians than having a healthy relationship with their kids.

— Anonymous

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

— Oscar Wilde

“Always strive to be a better parent to your children than your parents were to you. —DALEEN BATEMAN BARLOW”

— Lisa Pulitzer

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

— Alan Dershowitz

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

— Lars von Trier

“You dream too much, child. Our kind, we make our way with strong backs and closed mouths.”

— Tad Williams

“Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you are unhappy, you cant raise a happy child. One should follow their passion and do something they like.

— Tisca Chopra

Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.

— Marcus Buckingham

One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is…

— Robert Stacy McCain

Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced…

— Mara Wilson

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

— Maria Montessori

“I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because…

— Rob Reiner

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

— Lorraine Toussaint

The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.

— Caterina Fake

“I’m not sure if it was the despondent look in a parent’s big brown eyes and the hopeless shake of her head…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

“Pleasure fades, gets old, gets thrown out with last year's fad. Fear, guilt, all that stuff stays fresh. Maybe that's why people…

— Katherine Applegate

“... it isn’t the kids who have two parents and a stable home who are the luckiest ones. It’s the kids who…

— Kristen Ashley

“So our job as parents is not to make a particular kind of child. Instead, our job is to provide a protected…

— Alison Gopnik

Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived…

— Hartley Coleridge

As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not…

— Polly Berrien Berends

“Most child behavioral development research is implicitly stage oriented, concerning: (a) the sequence with which stages emerge; (b) how experience influences the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the…

— Luke Timothy Johnson

As we grow older, smarter and stronger. We tend to forget our once strong parents grow old and weak as well.

— Anonymous

I'd never been someone desperate to have children and then I changed my mind.

— Michaela Strachan

Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

“I pray for the kids in the suburbs… I pray that one day, we’ll all graduate from similarity.”

— J. Merridew

“When it’s not enough to veto your children’s tendencies, you must in vitro them.”

— Bauvard

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

— Bill Cosby

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

— Dallas Willard

We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like.

— Tarana Burke

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

— Romola Garai

“There's no sadder sight than that of a child's coffin.”

— Aaron Dries

Here's to the kids who are so confused about everything right now.

— Anonymous

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

— Jeanne Moreau

“your children are either the center of your life or they’re not, and the rest is commentary”

— Calvin Trillin

Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

— Debora Spar

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

— Susan Minot

When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.

— Neneh Cherry