Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. — Frank A. Clark
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. — Clay Aiken
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. — Benjamin Franklin
When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say… — Marvin J. Ashton
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very… — Arnold Bennett
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child — Angelina Jolie
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like… — Louisa May Alcott
When a child is born the mother also is born again. — Gilbert Parker
I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my… — Beyonce Knowles
At some point, it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties… — Beyonce Knowles
My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention. — Woody Allen
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did… — Henry Ward Beecher
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him… — A. E. Housman
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' — Adrienne Rich
You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have… — Unknown Author
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and… — Pope John Paul II
Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with wonder at this… — Pope John Paul II
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that… — Leo Buscaglia
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move… — Unknown Author
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child… — Thomas Sowell
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender… — Thomas Huxley
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery… — Louis Agassiz
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery… — E. O. Wilson

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