Child Grows Quotes

#1. The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

Tony Parsons

#2. It is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.

Glenda Jackson

#3. I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

Marilyn Monroe

#4. What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Pablo Picasso

#5. I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

Alice Englert

#6. His polish-black hair was so silky that my first impulse was to stroke it. That's what beauty does to us. Our first thought is that of the child. Touch it. Make it mine. But the child grows up and learns what happens when you reach for those bright balloons bursting with colour.

Bonnie Hearn Hill

#7. Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

Mark Helprin

#8. If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Anne Lamott

#9. Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

Shinichi Suzuki

#10. When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Steve Largent

#11. Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Anne Cassidy

#12. If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

Hans Rosling

#13. As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

Charles E. Burchfield

#14. When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

#15. I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

M.C. Escher

#16. Posterity
the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism
grows ever harder to conceive.

Mason Cooley

#17. Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Barbara G. Walker

#18. One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

Anita Brookner

#19. This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

James M. Barrie

#21. The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

Anthony De Mello

#22. I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

Will Rogers

#23. When I said I should die in your service with pleasure, I intended to live in it many long years; since, to tell you the truth, from a child I had always a particular dislike to dying, and I think that with every hour the prejudice grows stronger.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#24. I'll tell you that whatever you feel for anyone, however much love's inside you, there's more of it when you have a child. You can't understand it until you've experienced it. And it doesn't change as they grow into men, into women. It just grows with them. It should be me in there, and not my boy.

J.D. Robb

#25. Ida, dear, please, do I complain? It is right a child should not love the mama the way the mama loves the child; children are ashamed of the love a mama has for them: that is part of it. But when a boy grows into a man it is right his time should be for other ladies.

Truman Capote

#26. The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

Robin Hobb

#27. Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Elizabeth George

#28. Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.

Barbara Mikulski

#29. Hungry for breath
like a kite falling stray,
the wire grows slack
the child within pulls at the empty air.

Jack Campbell

#30. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

Bear Bryant

#31. A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.

Deepak Chopra

#32. The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

Annie Besant

#33. The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Lydia M. Child

#34. If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

Joyce Brothers

#35. Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Miller

#36. Our religious systems have taught us to "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6) I couldn't disagree more. How about, "feed a child what it needs, so when it gets grows up, it will "be" its own unique unpredictably creative self.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#37. That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Richard Steele

#38. An adult can take a principle and adapt it to his needs. But we're not ready for that yet. We're children. And when you're teaching a child, you require him to do what is right until he grows old enough to make his own choices.

Brandon Sanderson

#39. Unalert yet sometimes suffused through and through by an inward light, is characteristic of the primitive and of the child (and also of those moments of religious and artistic inspiration that occur ever less and less often as a Culture grows older) right

Oswald Spengler

#40. Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much or how many people you can love, even though at times you feel as though you could burst - you don't - you just love even more.

Yasmin Le Bon

#41. Shine, baby, shine, be graceful child of mine. Be like the firefly who glows no matter how the darkness grows. Shine, baby, shine

Maryann Cusimano Love

#42. No one knows,
the heart of a child,
how it grows
until it is too late.

Hilda Doolittle

#43. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

#44. From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

Lauryn Hill

#45. In the embers shining bright
A garden grows for thy delight,
With roses yellow, red, and white.
But, O my child, beware, beware!
Touch not the roses growing there,
For every rose a thorn doth bear.

Richard Watson Gilder

#46. The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

Elizabeth George

#47. Pablo Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Lauren

Viola Shipman

#48. Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

James Anthony Froude

#49. The world grows smaller,' she finally said. 'And small worlds cultivate greed. It is a grievous sin... We are not all like them. I am sorry, child, for your loss, and I am sorry for them, for seeing such a small world.

Marie Lu

#50. Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows.

Tamara L. Chilver

#51. Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

Kathleen Huggins

#52. Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this has been done. This is the greatest crime that parents have always committed against children. They go on forcing the child.

Rajneesh

#53. In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

Sela Ward

#54. Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Jean Arp

#55. My son Asclepius had become the god of medicine by the time he was fifteen, and I couldn't have been happier for him. It left me time for my other interests. Besides, it's every god's dream to have a child who grows up to be a doctor.

Rick Riordan