Child Quotes

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Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child. — Gail Sheehy
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law… — Robert Breault
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor… — Martin Luther
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that… — Richard Bach
Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and… — John Bunyan
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity… — John Steinbeck
Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to. — Charles E. McKenzie
A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins. — Evan Esar
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds… — Horace Mann
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. — Robert MacNeil
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. — Ellen Key
Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for… — Robert Herrick
Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea. — Marianne Williamson
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know that others have… — Rajneesh
Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees. — Rajneesh
Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying. — Rajneesh

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