Your Children Quotes - Page 23

• You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.

  Mike Lookinland

  Children, Childhood, Trying

  "‘Brady Bunch’ Star Mike Lookinland On Fame, Alcoholism And His Surprising New Career". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

  Anthony Doerr

  Childhood, Waiting, Here And There

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• When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.

  Steve McFadden

  Dog, Children, Kids

  "EastEnd Boy". www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2001.

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• Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Children, Nice, Book

  "Amazing Shangri-La rescue story". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2011.

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• Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

  E. W. Howe

  Children, Men, Talking

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• Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

  Paul Hauck

  Children, Self Esteem, Teaching

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• The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

  Louise Hart

  Children, Parenting, Wish

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• The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

  Louise Hart

  Time, Children, Parenthood

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• All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.

  Peter Kline

  Children, School, Waiting

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• Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Children, Father, Teenager

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.

  Leopold Fechtner

  Children, Dark, House

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• There're going to be animals in God's Heaven on Earth, a New Heaven and a New Earth! God's not going to have His Creation defeated. He put those animals here for pets and playthings and companions for you and your children, and you're still going to enjoy the animals.

  David Berg

  Children, Animal, Heaven

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• At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Memories, Children

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Nature, Children, Science

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.379, Psychology Press

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• I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating.

  Vera Farmiga

  Mother, Children, Reading

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.

  Julianna Margulies

  Children, Home, Love Life

  Source: variety.com

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• It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?

  Jamie Bell

  Children, Growing Up, Fighting

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.

  Jamie Bell

  Children, Forever, Mind

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014..

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• Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Window, Ends

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.55

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• Something you consider bad may bring out your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Children, May, Talent

  François-René de Chateaubriand (2014). “Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb”, p.42, Penguin UK

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• In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Adventure, Childhood

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.816, Hamilton Books

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• Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Children, Adversity

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• Ultimately of course, parents must take responsibility for their children's health, .. Our message must be: What you don't know about your children's health insurance options can hurt them. It's up to you to find out if your child is eligible for this health insurance.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hurt, Children, Responsibility

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• When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Children, Caring

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• I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.

  Edmund White

  America, Childhood, Culture

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