Child Quotes

7828 quotes by 4374 authors

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. — Hugh Mackay
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate… — Carol Bellamy
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the… — Yehudi Menuhin
Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results. — Rod Paige
I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more… — George W. Bush
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. — Marva Collins
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he… — Alfred Binet
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. — Andrea Dworkin
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are… — Paulo Freire
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with… — William James
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another,… — Lev S. Vygotsky
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and… — Roy Keane
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide… — Marie Clay
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. — Mary Ellen Chase
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a… — Kirk Douglas
Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a… — Rajneesh
You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not… — Mother Teresa
When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to… — Lewis Sperry Chafer
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time. — John Keats

Who Wrote These Child Quotes

4,374 authors contributed a total of 7,828 Child Quotes, led by these top contributors: