Child Quotes
7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference…
— June Jordan
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The message of our campaign is "Make every mother and child count". This campaign is not just about health. It is also a powerful call…
— Liya Kebede
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We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value every…
— Lee Jong-wook
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The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of…
— Roger Moore
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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
— Lucretia Mott
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Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment…
— Robert Owen
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Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of…
— Utah Phillips
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Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children and their children's…
— Kyra Sedgwick
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...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically…
— Juan Somavia
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It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter,…
— William Graham Sumner
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Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures that will give…
— Marlo Thomas
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which…
— Abdoulaye Wade
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Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions…
— Rachel Weisz
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People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we…
— Barack Obama
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
— L. Sprague de Camp
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A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own…
— Quentin Bell
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The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.
— Andrea Brown
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like…
— Lewis Thomas
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See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are…
— Deepak Chopra
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There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of…
— Art Buchwald
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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields…
— Albert Einstein
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What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
— Geoffrey Holder
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor…
— Margaret Sanger
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As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No…
— Kate Winslet
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