Child Quotes

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The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind. — Maria Montessori
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who… — Maria Montessori
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed… — Bob Brown
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,… — George Sand
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe… — Lafcadio Hearn
A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before… — Joan Rivers
I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying… — Berkeley Breathed
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and… — Sylvia Earle
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my… — Ed Bradley
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.… — Maurice Sendak
When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future ! — Kevin Heath
Stay a child while you can be a child. — Stephen Sondheim
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. — Shel Silverstein
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease… — Fran Lebowitz
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. — Laurence J. Peter
Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on… — Lewis H. Lapham
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. — Neal Cassady

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