Child Quotes · Page 94

The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

— Roald Dahl

“Kids should be cute, caring, cuddly, and above all, quiet.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Any time your child pushes your buttons, he’s showing you an unresolved issue from your own childhood.”

— Laura Markham

“You can't gain control of your children by losing control of yourself”

— Jill Ammon Vanderwood

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

— Andrew Combe

Parents are very strict to their daughters cause they think that were gonna raped wherever we go.

— Anonymous

I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.

— Constance Marie

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

— Richard Carlson

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had…

— Lois Wyse

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children…

— John Updike

To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they…

— Michael Sata

The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself…

— Jodi Picoult

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too…

— Arne Jacobsen

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

— Albert Einstein

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when…

— Garry Shandling

Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Parenting is a bit like baking a cake. You put all the right stuff in and do exactly what your mother wrote…

— Anonymous

“Parenthood is shit, snot, slime, fear, tears, spit, and spills. It’s as intense as combat, which is to say hours of tedium…

— Scott Simon

In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother.…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Among the most valuable but least appreciated experiences parenthood can provide are the opportunities it offers for exploring, reliving, and resolving one's…

— Bruno Bettelheim

When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo…

— Blake Lively

I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When…

— Russell Baker

I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.

— Benjamin Clementine

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

— Agatha Christie

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

— Max Minghella

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

— Jack Nicholson

Being a stepparent is knowing when to step in, when to step back, when to step up, when to step out.

— Joe Buck

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

— Mayim Bialik

I acted as a hobby when I was a child but wasn't initially very good at it.

— Tuppence Middleton

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

— Jacqueline Woodson

When you have a kid your life changes completely, it's not about you anymore.

— Nacho Figueras

I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn't occur to me.

— Bill Bailey

The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.

— Ryan Lindley

“But the thing about having kids is: you can’t go to pieces; you just have to keep going.”

— Helen Fielding

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them.

— Anonymous

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

— Anonymous

“Nothing is wrong with you dear child. You are special, you are… a witch.”

— Margeaux Laurent

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

— B. C. Forbes