Child Quotes · Page 75

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

— Heather Locklear

My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in 'Afsana.'

— Javed Jaffrey

“Two years in a child's life is the distance between stars.”

— Nancy Horan

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

— Charles Lamb

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Always remember, child, that you are this water, and this water is you.”

— Francesca Cairns

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.

— Anonymous

No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

— Kate Middleton

“Parenting the hurt child means always knowing that you are parenting your emotional better, a human being who survived against all odds.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

One year of parenthood made us realize our responsibility towards our son. We also understood how a child needs his parents and…

— Amrapali Gupta

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove…

— Julie Smith

When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they…

— Mary Badham

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when…

— Joseph Devlin

As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act…

— Lecrae

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

— Timothy Carey

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is…

— Virginia Satir

“There's a unique substance in each one of us. A raw matter known as the child, pure and impressionable, flexible enough to…

— Zohreh Ghahremani

The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes…

— Brené Brown

Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the…

— Jane Brody

It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at…

— David Thewlis

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no…

— Douglas Coupland

Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults.…

— Marjane Satrapi

“Children killing children. That's a terrible thing." "What do you think has gone wrong?" "It's not just the children. It's the grown-ups…

— George Dawson and Richard Glaubman

“And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you…

— Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

“when it’s your own child, you are not a babysitter. It’s called parenting.”

— Joanna Campbell Slan

I love baseball so much, ever since I was a child playing during the summers.

— The Miz

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

— Maria Montessori

Childhood has best memories of whole life, which starts with happiness and ends with sadness..

— Sahil Rathod

Here's to the kids who are tired of going through the same family problems over & over again...

— Anonymous

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

— John Boehner

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

— Wassily Kandinsky

There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out.

— Becky Albertalli

“The world should stop lying to kids because they've always been brutally honest with us.”

— Adam Silvera

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

— Carrie Coon

You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.

— Jonathan Dee

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

— Moira Kelly

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

— Andrew Young

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

— Jim Coleman

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

— Henry Rollins