Child Quotes · Page 185

If you're not running through chaos together with kids, you're not really playing together.

— Jon J Muth

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

— Phyllis Diller

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

— Temple Grandin

As a parent, you're never wrong in your children's eyes.

— Ronan Keating

Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

— Zig Ziglar

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

— Bill Crawford

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

— Tony Dorsett

My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully;…

— Sadie Jones

“Child development does not mean developing your child into the person you think they should be, but helping them develop into the…

— Toni Sorenson

“In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally…

— A.G. Phillips

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

— David Jeremiah

“Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

— Maurice Saatchi

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family…

— Tom Hardy

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless…

— Lea Thompson

“3. SENSITIVITY: Keenly aware, spirited kids quickly respond to the slightest noises, smells, lights, textures, or changes in mood. They are easily…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so…

— Josephine Hart

Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal… Toddlers say very little and do a great deal… With a toddler…

— Penelope Leach

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo,…

— Scott Turow

We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal…

— Mamie Till

“That’s what parents often do, I think, we persuade ourselves we’re doing everything for the sake of the child. It’s too painful…

— Fredrik Backman

When you know your mom and dad are doing things that are not idyllic, as far as your desire to defer to…

— Jason Bateman

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the…

— Rachel Carson

I've had chronically bad stomach aches since I was a child.

— Trudie Styler

“Knowing what to expect next gives children a sense of security.”

— Anonymous

“I was an only child-- and so I became an only man." Joshua Bigg The Tenth Commandment”

— Lawrence Sanders

“I thought being home might do you good, but … I forget sometimes parents aren’t always … good for their kids.”

— Gillian Flynn

As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up…

— Asif Ali Zardari

Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don't care about anything as much as you do them.

— Tom Fletcher

“Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.”

— Amit Kalantri

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

— Samuel Richardson

When kids have got nothing to do, they'll always get into trouble.

— Leon Edwards

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

— bell hooks

The accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on parents.

— Anonymous

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

— Madeleine L'Engle

There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

— Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

“Teach children to dream early. Then, their dreams will grow with them.”

— Sonia Cunningham Leverette

“When your child comes home to talk about life, what could be more important?”

— Destin Bays

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

— Tia Mowry