Child Quotes · Page 96

Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?

— Jo Cox

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

— George Santayana

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

— Diane Abbott

I was an only child so, at home, I'm turnt up by myself, doing whatever I wanna do.

— Megan Thee Stallion

“There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child.”

— Benjamin Kunkel

“It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination”

— K. Lamb

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have…

— Maya Angelou

“When two-year-olds are thwarted (like every three minutes), they have intense anger and temper tantrums. At this stage the child needs to…

— John Bradshaw

When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously…

— Darell Hammond

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t…

— Frank Gehry

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from…

— George Mason

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they…

— Chanakya

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely…

— Samantha Shannon

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

— Anonymous

In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime…

— Dominique Moceanu

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a…

— Sydney J. Harris

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me…

— Asa Larsson

I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young,…

— Howie Mandel

“When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the…

— Dan Pearce

If a child lives with criticism, it learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, it learns to fight. If a…

— Ritu Ghatourey

The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you…

— Magnus Scheving

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

— Ruby Bridges

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

— Jerry Seinfeld

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

— Todd Tiahrt

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

— Johnny Depp

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

— Richard Louv

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

— Roseanne Barr

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

— Barbra Streisand

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.

— Ralph Bus

With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.

— Mahima Chaudhry

For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults.

— Lara Trump

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

— Charlie Rose

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

— Robert Breault

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

— Richard Linklater

“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.”

— Geraldine Brooks

If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.

— Patricia Schroeder

“Too close supervision stifles the mental growth of children.”

— Abhijit Naskar