
Top 100 For Your Child Quotes
#1. Faithfully disciplining (training, educating, correcting) your child in a manner that pleases the Lord is an expression of biblical love. It also is a step of obedience for you as a parent and provides godly direction for your child.
John C. Broger
#2. Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well ... Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child.
Lisa Coyne
#3. I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.
Eva LaRue
#4. Know your own child's behaviors and look deeper to find their meaning. Be the expert for your child. Discover the wonderful.
Liz Becker
#5. Even though you can't control outcomes for your child, you can parent unconditionally with all your heart.
Lisa Coyne
#6. I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.
Kym Whitley
#7. Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.
Amy Chua
#8. When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.
Raymond Blanc
#9. I think that as a parent, you have the responsibility to create a peaceful and warm home for your child to come back to.
Kou Matsuzuki
#10. In a brain scan, relational pain - that caused by isolation during punishment - can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?
Daniel J. Siegel
#11. You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.
Bruno Bettelheim
#12. The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!
Rex L. Forehand
#13. There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.
Edward Hirsch
#14. What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.
Robert Breault
#15. Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world ...
Nnedi Okorafor
#16. If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.
Jo Brand
#17. Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.
Chuck Norris
#18. If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.
Vanessa Lachey
#19. I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.
Trinny Woodall
#20. You'll sacrifice for your child in ways you had never imagined. And they're not exciting and earth shattering ways, either. They're small, seemingly insignificant gestures that mean the world to them.
Heather McVea
#21. Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs and your child's. You become stronger by remaining aware of your own well-being, which in turn makes you a stronger person for your child or children.
Elizabeth Berrien
#23. The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.
Hilary Duff
#24. I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
Diane Abbott
#25. The goal is to build the muscle memory for your child to instinctively ask themselves key questions before making a purchase.
Holly D. Reid
#26. Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally ... Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.
Stanley Greenspan
#27. Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.
Mayim Bialik
#28. Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.
Shania Twain
#29. your lack of knowledge may not for you but surely it is dangerous for your child because you cannot teach them which you your self do not know
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#30. Care for your infant business or career as you would care for your infant child - with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward, being in the moment with it, accepting it as is, watching it grow, enjoying every step of the way.
Marc Allen
#31. But a yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. Your body is the child of the soul. You must nourish and train your child. Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. It has to be earned through sweat.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#32. If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
Elizabeth Lesser
#33. When you name your child after a grotesque gigantic creature known for slaughtering hundreds of innocents for the sole purpose of entertainment (okay so they were illegal immigrants who entered his realm) you must have a slight idea how that would turn out.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#34. And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again.
Flannery O'Connor
#35. Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.
Frederick Lenz
#36. I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?
Alexis Arquette
#37. A nation's not a child, for God's sake ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.
David Hewson
#38. Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.
Marquis De Sade
#39. It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.
Charles De Lint
#40. There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.
Margaret Halsey
#41. Control your temper, or it will control you. Sometimes even remotely, like a toy car. Christmas is coming up, and for only $44.44 I'll sell you a gift that would be perfect for the child in your life.
Jarod Kintz
#42. What this means for parents is that you never know what your child's "sex education" class may entail. Only fourteen states require that sex ed be medically accurate.
Peggy Orenstein
#43. Have you given your child unreservedly to the Lord for whatever He will? ... O may He strengthen you to say YES to Him if He asks something which costs.
Amy Carmichael
#44. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist: "Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give to your child.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#45. Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.
Charlotte Mason
#46. A person's personality can only be known by learning about his background, because this is where he generates his character. Your character for instant was shaped back when you were a small child, and that applies to everybody else.
Jack Roberts
#47. I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
Abbie Cornish
#48. Love your spirited child for who she is. Because she is more, she will make you more.
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
#49. Oh, sweet peaches and cream, this hurts."
"Child, what have you done to your foot?"
Beth glanced down to see blood dripping from the side of her sandal. "Crap."
"Honey, that's blood. That calls for a shit or a damn or something stronger than crap.
Terri Osburn
#50. Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.
Penelope Leach
#51. I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.
Karan Johar
#52. The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.
Angelina Jolie
#53. Watch over our child. Guide him safely from the ways of harm.
Keep happy his heart, brave his soul, and rosy his cheeks.
Guard with your life his hopes and dreams,
for he is all that we have, all that we are,
and all that we will ever be.
William Joyce
#54. For every idea that's been done to DEATH, there's a child being BORN who hasn't read it yet. Don't kill your dragons.
J.N. Race
#55. Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.
Bob Beauprez
#56. When Christmas doesn't fit your expectations of what the perfect holiday should be, think about how Joseph and Mary probably didn't think that manger was the perfect place for their child to be born. but look at what a perfect Christmas that turned out to be.
Joel Osteen
#57. This was the elasticity and permanence of parental love; everything vile about your children was to some degree something vile about yourself, and disowning your child for their failings could only compound your own.
Jennifer DuBois
#58. Go to your rest rejoicing, for you are not a desolate wanderer but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by your Lord.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.
Tupac Shakur
#60. Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five ... but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.
Jodi Picoult
#61. So instead of feeling sorry for yourself, realize that your life, just like a developing child's, has phases
and now you're in the mommy phase.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#62. Our ancestors survive somewhere in our faces, she thought. If you look like your mother as a child, you end up as your father when you age. When you no longer recognise your face, it's because an unknown ancestor has taken up residence for a while.
Henning Mankell
#63. Nothing works well if a child's love needs are not met. Only the child who feels genuinely loved and cared for can do her best. You may truly love your child, but unless she feels it - unless you speak the love language that communicates to her your love - she will not feel loved. Filling the
Gary Chapman
#64. I'm doubly sorry for your loss," the old monk began after a time. "First, because every son should have a chance to know his father, not as a child knows his protector, but as a man knows another man.
Brian Staveley
#65. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
#66. When I pray, "Your kingdom come," I am saying to God's Holy Spirit, "Spirit of Christ within me, take control and do what You will for Your glory." A true child of God won't be preoccupied with his own plans and desires but with the determinate program of God, revealed in the person of Jesus Christ.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#67. You can't punish someone for a lack of affection, can you? You can't force a child to love you just because he's your child.
Paul Auster
#68. Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
#69. And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectation unique to you, and your infinitesimal heart?
Kristin Cashore
#70. You're going to be my grandmother."
"You silly child. In my heart, I've been your grandmother for years. I've just been waiting for you to make it official.
Julia Quinn
#71. If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get.
Bill Cosby
#72. Easy as a child breathes a wish at a dandelion ... is exactly how hard it would be for me to tear your limbs from their sockets.
Adam Levin
#73. Who is my child?" The true nature of your child is a powerful guide for you.
Jean Haner
#74. Do as you must -- you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make things easier for yourself.
Nadia Hashimi
#75. Thank you for the time we shared, for the love you gave, for the wisdom you spread. I will always treasure the lessons you taught me. I will carry them with me all the days of my life. I am so proud to be your child.
-From A Prayer When a Parent Dies
Naomi Levy
#76. 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
#77. Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.
Dean Koontz
#78. You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job.
Karin Slaughter
#79. An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
Sara Sheridan
#80. Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#81. Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.
Gary Holland
#82. How could you possibly want to compete about who suffered most?' Beatriss said sadly. 'For if you want to covet that prize, take it! Take it, but don't bring my child into your bitterness.
Melina Marchetta
#83. When you raise a god instead of a child, you're bound to be serving him for the rest of your days. Same thing holds when you marry a god.
Gloria Naylor
#84. Magic won't save us. The power it would take to conjure on such a scale, the tithe would destroy us. The only hope ... is hope. You don't need tokens for it- it's in your heart or nowhere. And in your heart, child, it had been stronger than I have ever seen.
Laini Taylor
#85. Every child deserves to be read to. It is a great bonding time for you and your baby.
Abha C.
#86. Ah, my poor child, how far gone you are in your blindness! Why did you have me summoned?"
"I had hopes, I had hopes."
"Hopes? Hopes of what?"
"I do not know. The things we hope for are always the things we do not know.
Henri Barbusse
#87. Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.
Abigail Tarttelin
#88. No matter how many years pass, it means something to a parent when their child needs them. At first, kids need you so much, all you want them to do is grow up so they can do things for themselves. Then you learn. You learn you should have savored every time they reached for you or called your name.
Kristen Ashley
#89. Love me, Kat.
The words repeated in his brain like a song he was unable to find the end of.
I've loved ye since I dipped your braid in that wax. Dinna fret about making a child. Let me be enough for ye. Ye're enough for me.
Mia Marlowe
#90. Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.
Mayim Bialik
#91. For your sake, jewel,
I am glad at soul I have no other child;
For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
To hang clogs on them.
William Shakespeare
#92. I'm not offended, but the implication that all improper behavior is the result of what I do for a living is rather absurd. As if a chatty five-year-old with a librarian mom would be a red flag. We expected your child to just sit behind her desk and shush people. Maybe she needs Ritalin.
Jim Gaffigan
#93. Dying is easy, beloved. It is living that is difficult. The secret is to live fully, to embrace every instant of existence, beautiful and ugly, blissful and painful. And remember to dance between the worlds, for that is your heritage as a child of the infinite Oneness.
Leonide Martin
#94. He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings ... " He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.
Nick Hornby
#95. It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.
Susan Cain
#96. My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.
Thomas A Kempis
#97. You are a child if you thought I didn't know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I've been -
He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.
Margaret Mitchell
#98. Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear.
Grigoris Deoudis
#99. It is you who need to go, Amende. Go home; your friends are waiting for you. Pg.63
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#100. It's called "being an artist" for a reason; it's something YOU ARE. It's how you live. It's WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.
Charlotte Eriksson
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