Top 100 The Child Quotes
#1. There is a talk that every father has with his son in which he brings the child to understand that there are ways we must act, things we must say, but inside, we are still us, we are family.
Adam Johnson
#2. The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.
Andrea Brown
#3. Make the time to connect to your more playful side, the child within you. Take the time to study the positive qualities of children and model their ability to stay energized, imaginative and completely in the moment no matter what might be going on around them.
Robin S. Sharma
#4. The child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past.
Cormac McCarthy
#6. To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J.B. Priestley
#7. Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank
Gary Chapman
#9. Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the children as the grievous mental harm in bringing up the child Catholic in the first place.
Richard Dawkins
#10. Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
Walter Savage Landor
#11. Procreation has little to do with your needs; it has everything to do with the child's needs.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#12. Whereas in childhood ... it was the parents' judgement that mattered to the child, later on the situation becomes reversed: it is then that the opinions of one's grown-up children become what matters, as well as their kindness.
Iris Origo
#13. The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.
Frederick Lenz
#14. As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#16. Bill supposed that for every child there was a defining age, a fixed reference point in relation to which his parents would always view him; whereas the child's own truest self would always be the present one.
Ann Packer
#17. Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.
Donald Woods Winnicott
#18. to the child, the Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our, are all one, and how the heart that begins its prayer with the God-devoted Thine, will have the power in faith to speak out the Our too. Such prayer will, indeed, be the
Andrew Murray
#19. I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
Tavis Smiley
#20. The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.
Vicki Lewis Thompson
#21. In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.
Otto Ohlendorf
#22. It is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose ... to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#23. I don't think Jennifer and I are really at the child stage yet. We have been discussing a nice house plant. If we don't kill that, then in a few years, we might try a fish.
Sophie Oak
#24. The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.
Steven Franssen
#25. The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking
Sunday Adelaja
#26. We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.
Maria Montessori
#27. The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.
Marilyn Manson
#28. One day, the child will understand what he feared most and he will laugh at his ignorance!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. At the circus, a careless mother may let her child take part in the experiments of a Chinese magician. He puts him in a box. He opens the box; it's empty. He closes it again. He opens it; the child reappears and goes back to his seat. Now it is no longer the same child. Nobody doubts it.
Jean Cocteau
#30. In every society on earth the child is regarded as a member of his parents' groups.
Douglas C. Baynton
#31. The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.
Polly Berrien Berends
#32. The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.
Brian Selznick
#33. Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#34. To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
Karl Shapiro
#35. The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.
Herbert Ratner
#36. A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.
David Whyte
#37. Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
Alan Turing
#38. An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
Maria Montessori
#39. 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
#40. A name with meaning could bring up a child,
Taking the child out of the parents' hands.
Better a meaningless name, I should say,
As leaving more to nature and happy chance.
Name children some names and see what you do.
Robert Frost
#41. With a weary and yet a pleased smile, and with an action as if he stretched his little figure out to rest, the child heaved his body on the sustaining arm, and seeking Rokesmith's face with his lips, said:
'A kiss for the boofer lady.
Charles Dickens
#42. I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them.
Michael Jackson
#43. Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.
Erich Fromm
#44. The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
#45. The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved
Charles Spurgeon
#46. Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.
Anne Sullivan Macy
#47. The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
Sigmund Freud
#48. Kronos took the child in his arms and saw right away that Demeter was another goddess. She glowed with an aura even more powerful than Hestia's. She was trouble with a capital tau.
Rick Riordan
#49. Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#50. When You Weren't Looking The child became a woman, though she wasn't ready to. Don't ask how or why. Those questions are not important ones. Can't you see you didn't care enough to notice?
Ellen Hopkins
#51. The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
Maria Montessori
#52. The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.
Jean Piaget
#53. Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.
Carl Jung
#54. My object is to show that the chief function of the child
his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life
is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses ...
Charlotte M. Mason
#55. He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.
Mitch Albom
#56. Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
Ellen G. White
#57. The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.
J. Arthur Thomson
#58. Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
Billy Corgan
#59. Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.
Julie Cantrell
#60. Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.
Roger Wicker
#61. The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori
#62. Give me the child until he is seven and I'll give you the man
Francis Xavier
#63. The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
Jacob Bronowski
#64. No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Friedrich Schiller
#65. The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.
Caroline Pratt
#66. My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.
Dorothy Allison
#67. You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Tom Wolfe
#69. I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
Boris Becker
#70. Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.
Peter Eisenman
#71. Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
Honore De Balzac
#72. The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo
#73. We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An
Ilona Andrews
#74. Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Charles Lamb
#75. When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.
Gregory Stock
#76. Prayer is the outstretched arms of the child for the Father's help.
E. M. Bounds
#77. My parents were always involved in community theatre, and I'd do the tech work and play the child.
Mark Linn-Baker
#78. Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.
James E. Faust
#79. Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
Robert Bork
#80. Ruby put her arms around her, but because she could not hold air, the child walked inside of her body, curled there and settled into her womb.
Cynthia Bond
#81. The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.
Barbara Bush
#82. Elizabeth glanced over at Nick, striding along with Lizzy on his shoulders. Once in the shade, the child had perked up enough to giggle as she bounced along on her moving perch. Nick caught Elizabeth's glance and winked.
Debra Holland
#83. Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Phillips Brooks
#84. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric Hoffer
#85. The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.
Vilfredo Pareto
#86. We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand
Leo Tolstoy
#87. When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.
Michael Jackson
#88. You are the child of this universe; you have the right to success and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
Maria Montessori
#90. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#92. Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom!
Sandra Chami Kassis
#93. Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#94. It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
Bill Brandt
#95. That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.
Cormac McCarthy
#96. Frustration is a key ingredient to growth. The child who is never frustrated never develops frustration tolerance.
Henry Cloud
#97. The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.
Maureen Corrigan
#98. All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.
George Will
#99. If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.
Shiv Khera
#100. O God ... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.
Israel Zangwill
