Child Quotes · Page 78

“Like young fern shoots my child's fingers curled. I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.”

— Lian Hearn

“I know I am a child because I have been to more bar mitzvahs than funerals.”

— Leigh Stein

Being in a new city with a toddler can be a bit of a challenge.

— Marisol Nichols

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

— Max Muller

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

— A. E. Hotchner

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

— Allison Pearson

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

— Marya Hornbacher

When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you,…

— Craig Sager

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might…

— Emmylou Harris

Children do best when their parents live together in stable relationships, when two incomes can be a catalyst for opportunity.

— Marc Veasey

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies…

— Suriya

“I get the whole lost-your-parents thing. Been there. But that don’t have to turn you stupid. That’s a choice, like wearing green…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

— Randy Alcorn

“Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I couldn’t allow if I wanted…

— J.D. Stroube

I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear…

— Al Roker

“Being a parent, there’s always that niggling fear, that notion that maybe one day your child will realize you’re not all-knowing, not…

— wildbow

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love…

— Jessye Norman

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she…

— Shilpa Shetty

It turns out, all the studies show you invest a little time in another person's life, often a younger person, and all…

— John Prendergast

My first horror film was - well, I don't know. 'Bless the Child' is sort of genre, but 'May' was such a…

— Angela Bettis

“The tremendous growth of the first seven years is accompanied by nearly constant movement as muscles and bones grow and coordination is…

— Anonymous

“The child’s problem is not an information deficit. His problem is that he is a sinner. There are things within the heart…

— Tedd Tripp

There's one person that you would give up your life for, and that's your child.

— Paula Patton

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

— Jodi Picoult

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

— James Dobson

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

— Joe Baca

I haven't even imagined having a kid yet. It's actually kind of one of my biggest fears, but that's OK.

— Bethanie Mattek-Sands

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

— Ben Stein

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

— Nora Ephron

When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

— Delbert L. Stapley

“It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand.”

— Nicholas Sparks The Lucky One

THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY

— Sarah Newton

“For you, I am like a child. For others, I am very wise.”

— Santosh Kalwar

I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.

— Suriya

She said, tell me, are you a Christian, child? I said, Ma'am, I am tonight.

— Marc Cohn

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

— Anonymous