Child Quotes

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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
Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind,… — Cheri Huber
But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And… — Will Ferrell
You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. — Robert Breault
People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a… — Robert Bloch
You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it. — Joni Mitchell
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get rid of unionized… — Newt Gingrich
It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through.… — Allen Iverson
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the… — V.S. Naipaul
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done… — Martin Luther
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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