Top 100 Life Child Quotes
#2. That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own?
Kage Baker
#3. For there is no true failure in life, child. There is only giving up one day before we would have achieved success.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.
James Nesbitt
#5. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.
Jessye Norman
#6. What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#8. Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
Judith Viorst
#9. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.
James Hollis
#10. Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.
Ray Bradbury
#11. Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.
Kate Winslet
#12. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.
Kellyn Roth
#13. And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
Bel Kaufman
#14. Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.
Hillary Clinton
#15. Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#17. The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.
Andrei Makine
#18. The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.
Frederick Lenz
#19. The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight.
Scott Turow
#20. To see the magic of life look through the wondrous eyes of a child.
Debasish Mridha
#21. I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.
Judith Jamison
#22. Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#23. I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.
Donny Osmond
#24. I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.
Michael Jackson
#25. I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.
Emiliano Salinas
#26. The child who has been taught to love the process of growing, learning and taking on new challenges and experiences can face life with confidence and poise. The
Tara Woods Turner
#27. The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.
Wayne Pacelle
#28. Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
Heather O'Neill
#29. Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.
Leo Tolstoy
#31. As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
David Johansen
#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. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.
Karen Maitland
#34. A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.
Charles Duhigg
#35. Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#36. I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.
Victor LaValle
#37. I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#38. The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.
Henry Adams
#39. Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
Jean Anouilh
#40. My heart longs for the day when there will be no more suffering, no more hatred or violence, only love and a child will be able to grow up in a world without ever having to know the pain and anguish of an empty belly.
Heather Wolf
#41. I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
Paul Watson
#42. Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.
Roberta Gellis
#43. As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.
Michael Leunig
#44. A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.
Agatha Christie
#45. Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
Michael Jackson
#46. The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.
Robert Edwards
#47. I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary.
Jeremy Northam
#48. The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
Maria Montessori
#49. A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others
Phil Harding
#50. The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
Barney Frank
#51. To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.
Frederick Franck
#52. If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.
Shreya Ghoshal
#53. A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself
Mother Teresa
#54. Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
William Gurnall
#55. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?
Marianne Curley
#56. It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
Goldie Hawn
#57. You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life.
Alberto Villoldo
#58. Each hour is a room of shame, and I am
swimming, swimming, holding my head up,
smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed,
like being naked with the clothed, or being
a child, having to try to behave
while hating the terms of your life.
Sharon Olds
#59. I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
Daisy Donovan
#61. I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.
John Dewey
#62. The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech ... As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere ... When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#63. Remember, you're the most loving child of this universe. Universe has to wait billions of years to get impregnated with you. You are the joy and creator of your universe.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
Carl Jung
#66. Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
Kailash Satyarthi
#67. Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.
Bruno Bettelheim
#68. Barbarianism and finesse cannot be rolled into one, Pricey defeats this theory. The barbarianism born from his fight to make it in life, his finesse brought about by his sensitivity that was deprived of him when he was a child.
Stephen Richards
#69. Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.
Seth Gabel
#70. The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
James E. Faust
#71. We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work magic in a child's life.
Ann Schlee
#72. If a child is loved, he feels worthy of love in the future
Sunday Adelaja
#73. My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S.E. Hinton
#74. I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
Jim Doyle
#75. There was something unnatural, a little unhealthy, about the way she inhaled Veda's smell as she dedicated the rest of her life to this child who had been spared.
James M. Cain
#76. Parting
One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
-
The strong once feeble
The weak once mighty
-
Time, the infinity
has marked them ...
Muse
#77. The experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.
Margaret Mead
#78. Life was built from the bricks of these connections and milestones and moments where you tell your two best friends that you're about to have a child.
Christina Lauren
#79. It doesn't matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you've started to leave, you will run your whole life.
Charlotte Eriksson
#80. The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.
Erik Erikson
#81. I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.
Shilpa Shetty
#82. You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
Joe Frank
#83. The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife.
Jeremy McCarter
#84. When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
Ezra Miller
#85. On the other side of the curtain, two separate wars were being fought. One was to save the life of a women who'd been beaten to near death by her husband. The other was to allow her child to have any kind of a life at all.
Jodi Picoult
#86. I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.
James Pearse Connelly
#87. He touched her and found fire. Tasted her and found life.
Maureen Child
#88. Do not love me as if I were a flower!
I want to live a worthy life -
as an atom in a mass of troubles
as a child of the street mobs!
Shushanik Kurghinian
#89. I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.
Lorraine Toussaint
#90. A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of labor. Tengo
Haruki Murakami
#91. When I was a child, I thought I wanted to become a terrorist. I was going to completely destroy human life. I wanted to erase everything. People were the guns of the world. They were the most useless thing on the face of the earth.
Gackt
#92. The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child
#93. Sascha. The only child she had ever borne. The cardinal who everyone had told Nikita was flawed, but who she'd known was a power who could not be allowed to come into her own. To do so would equal her death. So she'd crushed her child, and in so doing, saved her life and forever lost her.
Nalini Singh
#95. Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child's life.
Ron Baratono
#96. I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.
Joanne Simpson
#97. Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.
Rosalind Lauer
#99. To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#100. When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.
Ricky Williams
