Child Quotes · Page 81

“Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.”

— Paulo Coelho

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.

— Benjamin Spock

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

— Haim Ginott

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

— Benjamin Carson

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

— Bill Cosby

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

— Bill Cosby

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this…

— Mary Steenburgen

I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry…

— Drew Barrymore

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

— Anna Silk

It makes common sense that children, whose brains are rapidly developing, should not be hitting their heads hundreds of times per season.

— Ann McKee

“So they’ve seen their parents up close, as one does with statues in Florence. The cracked toes and chalky masonry.”

— Hala Alyan

“Cognitive and social learning cannot break through to a child whose world is intrusively loud, blindingly bright, unbearably malodorous and physically complicated…

— Ellen Notbohm

Not everyone's a perfect parent, but we do learn, and we grow from that. I'm not trying to be harsh on my…

— Farrah Abraham

“Just as this scale predicted the future health and happiness of the children in this study, so does knowing and telling our…

— Desmond Tutu

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to.…

— Ann Landers

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents,…

— Ursula Hegi

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be…

— Anonymous

“You give them an environment where they feel they can grow. But also make bloody sure you challenge them. You make sure…

— David Hare

“It's hard to trust your child to find his or her own path, especially when we're told everyday by professionals that children…

— Anonymous

“Tell your children the most important things To Be when they grow up, is to be kind and compassionate, to be loving…

— Martin Suarez

“Our definition of neglect has stretched to prevent parents from determining when their children are ready for even a modest amount of…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”

— Mark Twain

As a kid you're always going to be told you can't do things for certain reasons, and to an extent that's okay.

— Ruel

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

As a child, I thought we had come to Mumbai for a holiday. I did not realise that this holiday was permanent.

— Kunal Khemu

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

While dealing with kids, it's very important to talk to them about what they would like to do.

— Arvind Swami

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

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone…

— Storm Constantine

Dont teach your children how to walk on the path of life, but teach them what the path is made up of?

— Vikrant Parsai