Child Quotes · Page 73

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

— Kevin Spacey

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

— Kathryn Hahn

It's different when your son is not typical, and you have to deal with him and handle him every single day.

— O. T. Genasis

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

— C.M. Stunich

“Three-year-olds, however, have the added disadvantage of a biological lack of impulse control.”

— Sarah Ockwell-Smith

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

— Ogden Nash

“playing at the entrance of the hut. “Whose children are these?” he asked.”

— Peter Rollins

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

— Steve Schirripa

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

— Charles Koch

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.

— Laura Schlessinger

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to…

— Harrison Ford

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they…

— Anonymous

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child…

— Bette Davis

Bad parents never try to research or read about decent parenting behaviour or ideas. Good parents read tons of info on being…

— Anonymous

If something's going on with your kid, it doesn't necessarily mean it's your fault. They're their own person. Let's talk about it.

— Michelle Buteau

I think that kids who grow up in an environment where they are constantly told that they're wonderful... that is going to…

— Terri Irwin

When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese…

— Alice Temperley

We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his…

— Anonymous

I knew from very early on that I wanted kids. I wasn't one of those women who goes, 'Well, if it happens,…

— Julianne Moore

When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the…

— Stephen Covey

Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone,…

— Charlotte Mason

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible,…

— Queen Victoria

Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their…

— Fred Rogers

My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many…

— Louis Bacon

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

— Warren Farrell

I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that.

— Zazie Beetz

The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'

— Shel Silverstein

You don't raise kids. You raise carrots. You sponsor kids.

— Jess Lair

“On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.”

— Jane Austen

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

— Joan of Arc

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if…

— Mallory Jansen

Parents, not governments, should decide what is best for their family.

— Richard Grenell

I was the only female in the special trials unit for many years.

— Marcia Clark

I won Wimbledon when I was 19 and again after I had a child.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

— Alice Walker

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

— Francis Bacon

“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When we agree to be parents, we have to accept the good and the bad.

— Hilaria Baldwin

Parents shouldn't tell their kids to dream big if they're stupid. Don't give them false hope.

— Nikhil Saluja

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

— Johnny Hunt