Child Quotes
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I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.
Swara Bhaskar
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We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.
Esther Rolle
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Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
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No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.
Steven Erikson
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
Heraclitus
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If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can’t give a child any greater place from which to fly.
Amanda Bearse
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The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.
Angelo Patri
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby
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If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.
Randy Alcorn
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Slow down, you crazy child.You're so ambitious for a juvenile.
Billy Joel
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Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
Nancy Mitford
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What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?
Helen Keller
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Never forget that you are a [child] of God. He loves you. Live by your standards. Stand up for what you believe in. Sometimes it is not easy, and you may be standing alone for a while. Look for friends with integrity and character, then go to them and express appreciation for their examples. You might even find someone who has been feeling as lonely as you. Pray for guidance and protection from the Lord. He will sustain you. He will become a trusted friend, and you will discover that your example will attract many friends who will take courage from your strength of character.
William Craig Zwick
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There's no question that aggression can be learned through modeling. When a child sees her parent behave in a particular way, she may be tempted or even rewarded for being that way.
Rachel Simmons
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Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
Marilyn Monroe
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I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.
Corey Feldman
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When you’re a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the curves are.
Brando Skyhorse
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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.
Evan Esar
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A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.
Eva Hart