Child Quotes · Page 30

A child is just a child no matter how old he becomes.

— Thom The Wizard

Strict parents create sneaky kids.

— From One Sneaky Kid

I am a child of the 21st century.

— John Shelby Spong

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Danny Glover

“Children should be children as long as they can”

— Louisa May Alcott

Children want to do what grownups do.

— Beverly Cleary

The introduction of heartache began as a child.

— Ozzy Osbourne

“a child is a fire to be lit, not a vase to be filled”

— Anonymous

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

— Oscar Wilde

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

— Anonymous

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

— May-Britt Moser

You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.

— Laura Ramirez

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

— Laura Dern

But you were Mine. My child. And I would not give you up.

— Karen Chance

In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.

— Otto Ohlendorf

“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will…

— Beau Willimon

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try,…

— Jack Canfield

The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive…

— Walt Mueller

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will…

— Jacob Bronowski

“...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of…

— Dorothy Rowe

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to…

— Nia Long

“Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact…

— Thomas Bernhard

“When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in…

— Sunday Adelaja

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at…

— Simon Schama

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an…

— Gregory Maguire

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very…

— Jennifer Ehle

“In families in which parents are overbearing, rigid, and strict, children grow up with fear and anxiety. The threat of guilt, punishment,…

— Anonymous

There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with…

— Annette Bening

A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In…

— Maria Montessori

“Object relations theorists are interested in understanding how formative interactions between parents and children become internalized by the child and, akin to…

— Edward Teyber

I am deeply aware of the pain caused to any victim of child abuse, especially at the hands of a trustworthy person…

— David Hope

An only child is never twelve.

— Enid Bagnold

No mother should lose her child.

— Ann Hood

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

— Robert Breault

“A week is a long time in the life of a child.”

— Maxwell Grantly

A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

— Bill Cosby

Our children were trained to look after each other.

— Alan Ladd

I am like a child on Christmas morning.

— Coleen Nolan

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

— James Sullivan