Child Quotes
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Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.
Elie Faure
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
Hector Hugh Munro
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No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.
Tony Dorsett
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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
Nicole Kidman
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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear – even as you save something to love.
Margaret Mitchell
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My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.
Celine Dion
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How do you protect a child from heartbreak? All I know is the egg wants to be held all the time, and perhaps if I hold her all the time she will know that she is loved in such a fundamental and profound way that when her heart is broken as an adult, she will not fall apart, will know that she is still loved and lovable.
Camilla Gibb
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Unless the home combines interest and freedom, together with teaching, certain children become violent rebels, and, seeking freedom and interest outside of the home, find themselves in a conflict, both with their home teaching and the home teachers, that shakes the unity and the happiness of parent and child.
Abraham Myerson
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Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
Michael Jackson
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There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.
Alma Powell
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When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
Nora Ephron
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Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.
Gautama Buddha
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
Uzodinma Iweala
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I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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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How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
Jules Michelet
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One of the few comforts I have when looking at images of distant suffering is the hope that the starving child with flies on his face doesn't know how pathetic he is. If all he knows is misery, maybe his suffering isn't as bad.
Evan Wright
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I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.
Hannah John-Kamen
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And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
Mother Teresa
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Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.
Mother Teresa
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I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.
Corey Feldman
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I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.
Evan Rachel Wood