Top 100 Quotes About Child
#1. Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.
Michael Scott
#2. I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.
Leona Helmsley
#3. A lot of mothers incorrectly see the meaning of their lives as being the designer or creator of their child's life
Sunday Adelaja
#4. So let me get this straight. You think it is ok to murder a child in the womb, but it's not ok to kill a serial killer." Debater 2: "That's not what I said. I denounce murder in any form, but abortion is not murder.
Suzanne L. Davis
#5. I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.
Sadie Frost
#6. In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
Angela Ahrendts
#7. These things are not glorified, just recorded. Tattooed on the heart; burned into the family's history. This piecing together of the life of your child; this homage, this attempt to put it all in order; and even though you will one day wish for the heartbreak to leave you, it never will.
Whitney Otto
#8. I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of - how do you say? - child streak.
Prince
#9. My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.
Stefano Gabbana
#10. As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
Natalie Dormer
#11. It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.
William Graham Sumner
#12. When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
Ban Ki-moon
#13. Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
#14. Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush
#15. A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
John Henrik Clarke
#16. Somebody bought me a Snuggie as a joke gift. Haha, the joke's on you, I enjoy it. I toss and turn at night, finally a blanket that's like, 'I'm going to keep you warm.' It's like having a small child with polio keep you in a full nelson - the perfect pressure.
Daniel Tosh
#17. I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.
Stephen Furst
#18. He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family
the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.
August Strindberg
#19. Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
Rand Paul
#20. Dear master, I think it would be better for each of us to watch ourself. To look after oneself means to look after both of us. That way I am sure we will avoid any accidents and will earn enough to eat.' " The Buddha said: "The child spoke correctly.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#21. A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
Charles Baudelaire
#22. One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.
Joan Benoit
#23. I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.
Corey Feldman
#24. I'd love to help the entire world. Even to change the life of one child is amazing.
Charlyne Yi
#25. If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
Saul Bellow
#26. Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger
#27. You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember that it's your child - whichever one is unhappy.
Anne Tyler
#28. [I'm a conscious parent when I believe] a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.
Shefali Tsabary
#29. All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.
Dustin Diamond
#30. The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
James F. Cooper
#31. The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep
Margaret Mead
#32. I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
Rita Dove
#33. Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#34. America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams
#35. Having a strong urge is like having a child throw a temper tantrum inside you, screaming "Hurt yourself!" But if you repeatedly ignore the urge's request and don't harm yourself, your brain will learn that urges don't work, just as a child learns that throwing a tantrum won't work.
Kim L. Gratz
#36. Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#37. 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
#38. We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don't talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.
Ashley Mansour
#39. He's in that larva stage, the damp, pained shedding of the child's body. This is what boarding school is for. To store them away during years like this, so they can suffer without the embarrassment of their parents watching.
Adam Haslett
#40. The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
Maria Montessori
#42. As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.
Shaquille O'Neal
#43. Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!
Fannie Flagg
#44. I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things.
Leo McCarey
#45. I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.
Joe Mahoney
#46. Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective.
Leonard Sax
#47. Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal blessings.
Martha H. Tingey
#48. And the only answer I know is
That no child should give up on life.
Math deals in absolutes.
But life is the most absolute of all.
Terri Fields
#49. As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
Chuck Palahniuk
#50. Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#51. This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place.
Nidesh Lawtoo
#52. Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.
Brandon Sanderson
#53. I'm a child of the universe, I have lived in almost all continents.
Micere Githae Mugo
#54. The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
George Wald
#55. Where has he gone, my meadow mouse,
My thumb of a child that nuzzled in my palm?
To run under the hawk's wing,
Under the eye of the great owl watching from the elm-tree,
To live by courtesy of the shrike, the snake, the tom-cat.
(from "The Meadow Mouse")
Theodore Roethke
#56. It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
Samantha Fox
#57. When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.
Bonnie Greer
#58. We must care about unbelievers because God does. Love leaves no choice. The Bible says, "There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear."18 A parent will run into a burning building to save a child because their love for that child is greater than their fear.
Rick Warren
#59. 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
#60. It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.
Anna Chlumsky
#61. Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
Gary Smalley
#62. It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.
Logan Lerman
#63. Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner.
Charlotte Bronte
#64. Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
John Bradshaw
#65. I think I know now why it is called the Kangaroo Suite. It's because even when you no longer have a child, you carry him forever. It
Jodi Picoult
#66. Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
Jeanette Winterson
#67. If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
Angelus Silesius
#68. Paul makes it clear enough that it takes more than an Abrahamic pedigree to be a child of God. To be a child of God requires faith in Christ.
Martin Luther
#69. When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.
When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.
When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.
When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
Haim G. Ginott
#70. I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.
Veronica Roth
#71. Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.
Mike McGavick
#72. The World has a First Cause, which may be regarded as the Mother of the World. When one has found the Mother, one can know the Child. Knowing the Child and still keeping the Mother, to the end of his days he shall suffer no harm.
Lao-Tzu
#73. It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
Homer
#74. Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
Anouk Aimee
#75. Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.
Renee Zellweger
#76. Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
Danny Bonaduce
#77. It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
Sloan Wilson
#78. The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.
Edward Abbey
#79. I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.
Ken Osmond
#80. Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I am indebted-"
"Don't be.This doesn't mean I like you or your politics any better," Heath said gruffly.
Lisa Kleypas
#81. I'm very close with my fans. I'm very involved with my fans, so I've seen the influence that I can have on a child or on the mind of somebody.
Drake Bell
#83. Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
Mark Canton
#84. Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.
Anne Michaels
#85. A saying, since a saying arises always from the mouths of adults when a person was just a listening child, was supposed to carry you back there, like a magic trick or a scrap of a story, or something with something else still sticking to it.
Sebastian Barry
#86. I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.
Rebecca West
#87. I go to the bathroom. All my life I have been an orphan and an only child. Now I come from a big noisy family who go ballroom dancing and live forever.
Jeanette Winterson
#88. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?
Pascal Mercier
#89. Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any means. Just that even men rarely view their role in child rearing as the most important thing they do, when in fact it is clearly the most important thing that anybody does.
Rufi Thorpe
#90. My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. As a child she was unique, she was a dreamer, she lived in her own world. Where it was safe.
Tina J. Richardson
#92. I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.
Erykah Badu
#93. I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
Emilia Fox
#94. As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.
David Sedaris
#96. I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.
Melanie Benjamin
#97. I was too scared to open my eyes. It was the logic of a child; if you don't open your eyes, the monster won't see you.
Kathleen Peacock
#98. The child who feels your respect
during silences is nourished more
than the child who is constantly
fussed and chattered over.
Vimala McClure
#99. (I)t was Lady who saved my mother's life. Lady, who made it possible for her not only to walk away from my father, but also to keep going. Horses were my mother's religion. It was them she wanted to be with all those Sundays as a child, when she'd been made to put on dresses to go to mass.
Cheryl Strayed
