Child Quotes · Page 91

“Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.”

— Tom Swyers

Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

— Michel de Montaigne

If you want to be a crazy person, go for it. But don't impose it on your kids.

— Jon Glaser

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

— Mo Ibrahim

“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.”

— Bradley Miller

Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.

— Kevin Heath

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

— Jodi Picoult

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…

— Jonathan Kozol

“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I…

— Leo Tolstoy

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were…

— Harpo Marx

Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how…

— Jennifer Armintrout

“Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Parents are a role model for their youngsters and how they act with these small ones or in front of them can…

— Patricia Dsouza

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the…

— Magda Gerber

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,…

— Jamie Bell

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious…

— J. M. Coetzee

Ever since I was a child, I've just had this sense that I'm connected to the spiritual world. I thought everyone else…

— Suzi Quatro

You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education…

— Gene Sperling

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.…

— Ada Leverson

Every parent just wants their child to be happy and to protect them. I should be the happiest I have ever been…

— Paddy McGuinness

“WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I…

— Walt Whitman

Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more…

— Gabor Maté

There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.”

— Jonathan Franzen

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

— Mark Vonnegut

“Tell the children to do all their business before they come over. I do not change diapers.”

— Sophie Oak

“Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.”

— Raheel Farooq

“But there's nothing like your first {child}. They grow up so fast.”

— Garth Stein

The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.

— Robert Edwards

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

— Jim Rash

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

— Hilaire Belloc

Children may not inherit their parents' talent,but they absorb their values.

— Anonymous

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

— William Gaddis

“Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.”

— Hannah Kahn

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

— J. B. Priestley

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

— Judy Sheindlin

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

— Marva Collins

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

— Peter Hedges