Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

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
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a… — Fulton J. Sheen
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony — John Stott
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman… — Susan B. Anthony
You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone. — Douglas Wilson
Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth. — Victoria Woodhull
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is… — Mother Teresa
My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I… — Pearl S. Buck
My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and… — Whitney Houston
The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself… — Phylicia Rashad
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody.… — Anthony de Mello
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. — Walter Scott
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. — Ray Lyman Wilbur
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to. — Marian Wright Edelman
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. — James M. Barrie
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to… — Saint Augustine

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