Child Quotes
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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
Allen Toussaint
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.
Pablo Picasso
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
Kailash Satyarthi
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
Plato
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If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.
Nick Joaquín
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Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne
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Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
Wallace Stegner
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In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
Elizabeth Chase Allen
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.
Kate Winslet
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They have truly dedicated their entire lives to making a positive difference in the lives of each child at Nazareth.
Vernon A. Walters
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When you go to heaven you can be what you like and I intend to be a child.
Bosie
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“Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!
Catherynne M. Valente
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
Ben Harper
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Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.
Oprah Winfrey
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John Coltrane was probably my deepest influence, along with Jimi Hendrix, Elvin Jones, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, Ravi Shankar, Art Tatum, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy, Oscar Peterson, John Lewis, Bill Evans, Yehudi Menuhin, McCoy Tyner, THE BEATLES, Jimmy Smith, Keith Jarret, Glenn Gould, Aldo Ciccolini, Georgy Cziffra, Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, with whom I worked as a child.
Patrick Moraz The Moody Blues
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I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.
Isaac Newton
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I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.
Abraham Lincoln
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I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.
Natasha Leggero
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For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.
Martin Luther