Child Quotes · Page 80

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the…

— Frank McCourt

I hope I have a child with flair on my hands. That's all you can hope, right?

— Tommaso Ciampa

The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.

— Laura Schlessinger

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

— Ruta Sepetys

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

— Sigmund Freud

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

— Larry Elder

“One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.”

— H. L. Balcomb

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be…

— Randall Jarrell

A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams.…

— Randy Pausch

The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big…

— Zig Ziglar

“Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so…

— Ellyn Satter

“So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a…

— Martin R. Lemieux

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best…

— Tony Dungy

Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need…

— Vimala McClure

I understand the term Yolo, but its certain things you should stop doing when you become a parent. Nevertheless, you are in…

— Marquis Herring

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example,…

— Annie Lennox

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your…

— Billy Crystal

“Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE.…

— Brian K. Vaughan

Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job…

— Anonymous

“Jicho ni kiungo cha ajabu zaidi kuliko viungo vyote katika mwili wa mwanadamu baada ya ubongo. Jicho moja linatengenezwa na viungo vidogovidogo…

— Enock Maregesi

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or…

— Gloria Steinem

“We simply must accept that they are loaned to us for a time and then they are released into adulthood. When we…

— Meg Meeker

“2. PERSISTENCE: If an idea or an activity is important to them, spirited children can “lock” right in. They are committed to…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

— Lewis Carroll

I was a very unpredictable child. I'd pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days.

— Kiesza

Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.

— Charles Nelson Reilly

“Parents should keep their kids engaged in positive activities as much as possible.”

— Malik Wade

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.

— Charlie Sykes

You can't have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?

— George Michael

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

— Rita Moreno

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

— Michael Moore

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.

— Marcelene Cox

“A child is like a ship. One can never be too young to be steered to the right course.”

— Regan Walker

Children's lack of self esteem which they want to acquire and improve by becoming a father or mother.

— Anonymous

Some people never grow up and you have to accept them for the child they are.

— Anonymous

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

— William Shakespeare

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

— John F. Kennedy

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau