Child Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson