Child Quotes · Page 65

My mission is to put a book in every child's hand.

— Rohini Nilekani

When I was a child, my dream was to play for Atletico.

— Fernando Torres

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

— Izabella Scorupco

“How does one even do this with a child?”

— Sarah Moriarty

What is so real as the cry of a child?

— Sylvia Plath

All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.

— Rick Riordan

“Kids make everything better. And harder.”

— David Baldacci

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

— Benjamin Franklin

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

— Woodrow Wilson

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it.

— Juergen Teller

Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

— Robert Rodriguez

ThanKs To OtheR PeopLe's ChiLdrEn,Ma LifE F-CkeD uP,trulLY a B-tCh

— Enkudie

My mother learnt Mohiniyattam as a child, and my father loved singing.

— Parvathy

Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them.

— Anonymous

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

— Malala Yousafzai

The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want…

— Angela Duckworth

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

— Douglas Wilson

Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.

— Stephen Covey

Children learn what they live and need to see their parents going to work or you set them a poor example for…

— Anonymous

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously…

— William Bennett

It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of…

— Paul Begala

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

— G. Stanley Hall

“It is the prerogative of the young to rail against injustice, and it is the fate of the old to endure it.…

— Nita Prose

I think it's very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force…

— Angela Duckworth

“If only parents would listen! If only they would let us talk instead of forever and eternally and continuously harping and preaching…

— Anonymous

The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need…

— Bruno Bettelheim

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag;…

— Jodi Picoult

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I want my children to be bold,free,self-reliant and capable of changing the phase of that portion of the earth where they live.…

— Amun Djoleto

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black…

— Walter Dean Myers

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

— Anonymous

Your child is happy. What else could you want?

— Yannick Noah

Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?

— Adolphe Menjou

An honest man is always a child.

— Socrates

You want to look younger... rent smaller children.

— Phyllis Diller

I didn't grow up as child actor.

— David Boreanaz

“Being a child was not fun for me.”

— Alex Witchel

“Terri as a child was shy and overweight.”

— Jon Eisenberg