Child Quotes · Page 88

There's no handbook to parenting, there's just opinions and statistics.

— Uncle Kracker

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

— Shia LaBeouf

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

— Michael Josephson

Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.

— Anonymous

Learn, learn, learn, and the sky is the limit for the young kids.

— Jeff Green

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

— Jennifer Beals

“You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

— Lilith Saintcrow

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.

— Natalie Dormer

“That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.”

— Leigh Newman

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to…

— Fanny Kemble

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good…

— Gregory David Roberts

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of…

— Roald Dahl

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting…

— Aimee Bender

“So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by…

— Erin Merryn

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as…

— Andrew Solomon

She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your…

— Levita Charin

The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the…

— Shefali Tsabary

“...the more we do for a child the less he will do for himself. If we give him watered-down material, many explanations,…

— Karen Andreola

“They (parents) want life to unfold according to what they believe. Most people want that. The last thing they want and need,…

— Lukasz Laniecki

Even though kids may have planned for months for the trip to Disneyland, some may be feeling very homesick, very forlorn, or…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Mothers are by nature very cautious in all things—particularly when it comes to our kids. We want to be savvy in our…

— Meg Meeker

No matter how much you urge them to relax and how much you mean it, your child probably grapples with highly stressful…

— Rachel Simmons

“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger,…

— Maurice Sendak

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

— Bryan Batt

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

— Kailash Satyarthi

It's hard for some parents to give their children compliments.

— Carmen Cusack

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

— Sigmund Freud

If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

— Debbie Reynolds

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

— Christine Lavin

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

— Jose Rizal

“features that speak much more to what a middle-aged person desires for a parent than to what the parent does.”

— Atul Gawande

“There is not a lot you can do with a damaged child, you raise them as best you can.”

— Steven Magee

“Your kids don’t inherit your advice. They inherit your defaults.”

— Eric Brockman

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

— Martin Seligman

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

— Emily Oster

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

— Erin Gray

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowing you're a child of the creator of the universe changes everything.

— Rick Warren

How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.

— Anne Nicol Gaylor