Child Quotes · Page 86

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

— Janusz Korczak

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

— Allison Janney

It is not the text book but the text people that make a difference in the lives of children.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.

— Marlene Dietrich

Virtually everyone agrees that the marriage of a 13-year-old child is unconscionable.

— Chris Sununu

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

— Elvis Presley

“A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

— Maria Montessori

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked…

— Susie Orbach

My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something…

— Marie Rutkoski

Nowadays, you cannot tell your kids what to do. In fact, you have to listen to them. As a parent, give them…

— Chunky Pandey

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to…

— Brene Brown

As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.

— Sui He

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an…

— John Francis Daley

Being a parent is really the most important job in the world. These seeds we plant in our children grow. We must…

— Anonymous

When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be…

— Keegan-Michael Key

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the…

— Jamaica Kincaid

There's an old maxim which is really true for every parent and that is, 'You haven't failed until you quit trying.' I…

— Lance B. Wickman

“What we truly want is the satisfaction of seeing our children become mature, self-reliant human beings, at any age, thinking for themselves,…

— Dale McGowan

“They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph,…

— Maile Meloy

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they…

— Matthew Quick

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no…

— Ellen Key

“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.

— Big Boi

“a child will run fast alone and be slow with an elder, but they will go far.”

— Dr. El Doziego Francis

“...kids always know what's going on, even before you know yourself sometimes.”

— Cecelia Ahern

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

— Blake Lively

“Verbalizing has a soothing effect on the nervous systems of children. (Adults, too.)”

— John Medina

“A child should never go to bed, they only wake up a day older.”

— J. M. Barrie

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

— Francis Bacon

“It must be wonderful to have the imagination of a child.”

— Nancy Naigle

Who enjoys practising handstands at seven in the morning? But that's how children were trained in the old days.

— Sammo Hung

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

— Jodi Picoult

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

— Marianne Williamson

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation

— Nelson Mandela

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

— Jean de La Fontaine

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

— Andy Serkis

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

— Nicki Minaj

“This world is not a playground where children at play are pampered by friendly nannies.”

— Wendelin Wiedeking