Child Quotes

• I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.

  

  Stephen Hunter
  • Entertainment
  • Activity
  • Imaginative

• When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • America
  • Parents
  • Search

• The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Ocean

• Part of Mother went with them. It is an acrobatic feat that only mothers can understand, this ability to be with every child.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Ability

• Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Fun
  • Learning
  • Marriage

• Every day life is being conceived somewhere. Every day someone is carrying a child. Every day someone is giving birth to a child. Every day children are coming under the influences of the world. So all these events we can pray for daily. And we can be a Keeper of the Flame with the Maha Chohan.

  

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet
  • Birth
  • Pray
  • Influences

• If I had a child, and I accidentally walked in on him seeing something, I'd rather he'd be seeing two people making love, than two people killing each other. USA in such a violent country, that I'd rather support sex!

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Sex
  • Killing
  • Violent

• I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Father
  • Decisions
  • Good Parent

• I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

  

  Susie Bright
  • Child
  • Healing
  • Sadness

• If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Child
  • Draws
  • Represent

• But I’ve always had a low voice, I can’t yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Words
  • Child
  • Voice

• As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Born
  • Laws
  • Rights

• Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Child
  • Advice

• Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Child
  • Womb
  • Bride

• Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Learn
  • Child
  • Give Up

• When I had my child, I planned on being with the woman I had him with for the rest of my life. If that doesn't work out, you have to see things from a different perspective.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Perspective

• Every parent wants to know their child is getting a great education and I will leave no stone unturned in my drive to deliver that.

  

  Gavin Williamson
  • Education
  • Child
  • Deliver

• In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Opportunity
  • Choices
  • Movies

• What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Age
  • Child
  • Adult

• Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

  

  Susan Isaacs
  • Child
  • Write
  • Novel

• This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Child
  • Claims
  • Fools

• Supplying enough of the right resources for the child protection system to carry out its three-fold mission (protecting children, preserving families and providing permanent homes for children.)

  

  James "Jim" Seals
  • Child
  • Resources
  • Protection

• For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Hair
  • Child
  • Fingers

• I enjoyed meeting Emma Watson. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Actors
  • I Love
  • Growing Up

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