Child Quotes

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself again...

A boy is a creature of odd feelings.

A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market ex...

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and ...

I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the great...

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs ...

He closed his eyes. This bed was a wedding gift from friends he had not seen in years. He tried to r...

She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself ...

Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is hap...

Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...

Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is no...

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a c...

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Pa...

He wants his children to have an old life and a new life, a life that is indivisible from all lives ...

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose...

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for...

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time...

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on...

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, w...

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hea...

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose ...

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she reali...

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p...

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to thea...

She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. ...

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to di...

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. ...

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of...

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by t...

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I d...

Perfection is the child of time.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of t...

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over t...

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle...

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know...

Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be ac...

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still rem...

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, c...

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to w...

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 ye...

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy...

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the...

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each...

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...

When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educa...

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resou...

He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded i...

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over, I'd automatically do impre...

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as lives...

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect fo...

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is no...

Lords of blue and Lords of gold,Lords of wind and waters wild,Lords of time that's growing old,When ...

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the enti...

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the consciou...

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary th...

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the soc...

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I inte...

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to chil...

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not be...

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being wit...

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with h...

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to ...

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that ...

When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of...

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guid...

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come fr...

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to n...

You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's lo...

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

What is it?”“A prayer.”“For a child?”She nodded.“For me?”Another nod.“On a tree?”“Trees spend all da...

And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true ch...

Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers ...

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left...

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.