Child Quotes

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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. — Thomas A. Edison
When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it… — Susan Boyle
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he… — Maria Montessori
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next… — Maria Montessori
The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. — Maria Montessori
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it. — Beryl Markham
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has… — Charles Caleb Colton
I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world. — Edward Kennedy
I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person… — George W. Bush
I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought… — George W. Bush
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the… — Winston Churchill
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than… — Eric Hoffer
(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child… — Bill Gates
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not… — Christian Morgenstern
In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him… — Clarence Budington Kelland
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both. — Michael Josephson

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