Top 100 Quotes About A Child
#1. We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.
Richard Riley
#2. I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
Robert Bloch
#3. It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
Isaac Asimov
#4. Every day life is being conceived somewhere. Every day someone is carrying a child. Every day someone is giving birth to a child. Every day children are coming under the influences of the world. So all these events we can pray for daily. And we can be a Keeper of the Flame with the Maha Chohan
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
#5. The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.
Conn Iggulden
#6. A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Paulo Coelho
#7. I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.
Samuel Rutherford
#8. If you compare statistics on different types of households, you find that the presence of an adult male means more additional work for the woman than the presence of a child under ten, even when the man believes himself to be sharing the housework equally.*
Mary Catherine Bateson
#9. I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.
Martin Freeman
#10. The weird thing is when you're a gay guy my age, I spent so much of my life just thinking I was probably never going to date anyone, so now just thinking, "all right, settle down and have a child" seems ridiculous to me.
Guy Branum
#11. Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.
Ann Coulter
#12. 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.
Dorothy Rowe
#13. You see how deviously the institution of marriage threads itself through a woman's life? If she does not marry she is perpetually a child - until she is suddenly an old woman, that is.
Fiona Hill
#14. I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.
Joanna Cassidy
#15. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Abraham Lincoln
#16. We're all not as strong as we pretend, we only bend to be broken in half, don't try to laugh, your playing with a child's heart.
Shannon Nicole
#17. How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
D.H. Lawrence
#18. A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.
Simon Soloveychik
#19. A grownup is a child with layers on.
Woody Harrelson
T.L. Alexander
#20. Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming
at a child, "Do something, dammit!" You'll either
freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear
widens the knowing-doing gap. Don't use it.
Martha Beck
#21. It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.
Kym Whitley
#22. There is nothing more special than a love of a child, and I love the fact I am an auntie.
Julia Sawalha
#23. I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.
Michael Keaton
#24. Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
Robertson Davies
#25. P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#26. Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
Ellen Gilchrist
#27. I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f
ing optimistic.
Steve Earle
#28. Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.
Magda Gerber
#29. When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
Yayoi Kusama
#30. Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Gustav Stresemann
#31. As a child, she'd been a great reader, finding the ultimate escape within the pages of a story. She learned that opening a book was like opening a set of double doors - the next step would take her inside to Neverland or Nod, Sunnybrook Farm or Mulberry Street.
Susan Wiggs
#32. The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.
Manu Joseph
#33. You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
John Lennon
#34. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer
#35. A man stroking a dog's head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. A child needs his parent at all times, Father. Not just when life is smiling down upon him -Rovender
Tony DiTerlizzi
#37. In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
Richard Louv
#38. In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.
Thomas Mars
#39. Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?
Carolly Erickson
#41. The more he held me and the more he whispered his love to me in the crook of night, the more I began to believe that I was made for something more. That my body could be used as a home for a child and that my heart could make room for a cradle.
Emily T. Wierenga
#42. I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.
Michiel Huisman
#43. His emotional state is irrelevant." Raphael's face was brutal in its repudiation. "It's because of him that you didn't have what you needed to heal as a child.
Nalini Singh
#44. Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
Bob Keeshan
#45. Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?
Will.i.am
#46. a girl has got to be a daughter first. She have to learn that. And if she never learns how to be a daughter, she can't never learn how to be a woman. I mean a real woman: a woman good enough for a child; good enough for a man - good enough even for the respect of other women.
Toni Morrison
#47. And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And ... not to choose is to choose.
Rebecca Goldstein
#49. We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?
John Steinbeck
#50. It wasn't just that I saw in his book, reflected backwards and dimly, my own retreat into wildness. It was this: of all the books I read as a child, his was the only one I remembered where the animal didn't die.
Helen Macdonald
#51. Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.
Christian Marclay
#52. As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65
Marcel Benabou
#53. I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
Billie Piper
#54. What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck
#55. I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Francine Pascal
#56. Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.
Hal Porter
#57. It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.
Archibald Alexander
#58. I took her hand in mine, not the way I used to hold hers as a child, but with our fingers woven together. And we strode through the archway of emperors and into the open
hand in hand, my mother and I.
Justina Chen
#59. What kind of a parent would want their children to have servants? The moment a child thinks it is entitled to anything, they think they deserve everything.
Pierce Brown
#60. When you are abandoned as a child, you are never able to forget that people are capable of leaving, even if they never do.
Sarah Addison Allen
#61. You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
Toni Morrison
#62. The best way to preserve a child's vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours.
Jacob Liberman
#63. When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.
Gwen John
#64. Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
Deepak Chopra
#65. O happy, happy morning! O dear, familiar place! / O warm, sweet tears of Heaven, fast falling on my face! / O well-remembered, rainy wind, blow all my care away, / That I may be a child again this blissful morn of May.
Celia Thaxter
#66. To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
Al-Ghazali
#68. As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn't yet as great as it could be.
Donna Brazile
#69. Calling a child "rebellious" has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school "stupid." It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tim Kimmel
#70. I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'
Bell Hooks
#71. Ute woman holding a child and looking skyward. There was
Heather Graham
#72. I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
Dick Van Patten
#73. while there existed great towns and cities all over the world, there was a certain kind of pleasure, a certain type of adventurous and audacious childhood, that only New York City could offer a child.
Imbolo Mbue
#74. Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros
Stuart Briscoe
#75. A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.
Garry Chapman
#76. Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
C. Thomas Howell
#77. I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.
Sefi Atta
#78. The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then ... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?
China Mieville
#79. Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
Aeschylus
#80. Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble.
Henry B. Eyring
#81. I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.
Jeff Lemire
#82. Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can't do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.
Caroline Kennedy
#83. Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
Willie Stargell
#84. If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
George Bernard Shaw
#86. the quality of classroom practice that a child encounters has unmatched potential with respect to influencing student learning and achievement. What teachers are doing in classes with students on a daily basis has the greatest potential to influence the academic outcome for students,
Steven Katz
#87. Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
Anne Frank
#88. A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.
Ann Hood
#90. Parents have the obligation to instruct their children. "Raise up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6).
Ginny Seuffert
#91. In all of us, there is a child that exists while we have our parents. With my mother gone, I feel a sadness for the loss of the child within myself.
J.L. Witterick
#92. If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.
James Hilton
#93. Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful and so rewarding.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#94. I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine."
"Bayern's Own? But you're a child."
Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.
Shannon Hale
#95. When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#96. Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.
L. Ron Hubbard
#97. I think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father, sister or brother, because you and I made a decision that getting loaded was more important than they are.
Pamela Barrett
#98. Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy ... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!
Joyce Meyer
#99. Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.
Michael Cunningham
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