Children Quotes · Page 306

The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

— Frederick Lenz

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

— Jack Handey

As a mother, I have to be a strong role model for my kids.

— Eva Marcille

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

— Gever Tulley

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

— Charlotte Mason

“To her data analysis was the ugly love child of science and Kafka,”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated.

— Michele Borba

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

— Anonymous

Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt.

— Ayn Rand

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

— Rich Lowry

I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.

— Kym Whitley

The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic…

— Stephen Covey

Anything new is a sort of adventure - as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like…

— Mini Grey

Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she…

— Howard Jacobson

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened…

— Mark Twain

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

— Maria Montessori

“Their daughter scrunched up her hands and legs, waving them wildly in the air. He opened his palm, allowing the babe to…

— Deeanne Gist

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading…

— Robin McKinley

“Meanwhile the whole machinery of the State, in all the different countries, is turned on to making defenseless children believe absurd propositions…

— Bertrand Russell

“The Girauds' child was looking more and more like a problem. Luke pressed his lips into a thin line. When she'd leaned…

— Ann Gimpel

My daughter is 15. None of her friends know who the hell Chris Rea is, but they know that song - as…

— Chris Rea

“MAY 1 His Consistent Character In ages past you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of…

— Cheri Fuller

A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.…

— E. B. White

“...you turn and grab my chin--not hard, but the way you do with a child when you want them to focus on…

— Heather Demetrios

Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.

— Peter Jennings

“It is not natural to withhold love from a child.”

— Roberta Rich

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

— Anonymous

“Educate every child to have a good head, good heart and kind spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

— Debbie Reynolds

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

— John Hartford

Exposing children to nature, especially at an early age, keeps them grounded.

— Roshni Nadar

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

— Plato

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

— Alexander Pope

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

— Laura Schlessinger

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“Instead of asking your child what they learned today, ask them who they helped today.”

— Kevin Kelly

Look at life through The innocence of a child You will see life is filled with magic

— Julandie Scholtz

“Do not neglect to uproot from the hearts of children the tares of sins,”

— St. John of Kronstadt

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

— Pope John XXIII

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

— Salman Rushdie