Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

Every child begins the world again. — Henry David Thoreau
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to… — Uma Thurman
Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child… — Dave Barry
For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the… — Erma Bombeck
Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of… — Arnaud Desjardins
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. — Doug Larson
Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth of the parents… — James E. Faust
What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You… — Ajahn Brahm
I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was… — Dolly Parton
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

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