Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . .… — Joseph Story
The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go out the window,… — Charles Duhigg
My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child — Malala Yousafzai
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage.… — John C. Maxwell
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it,… — John Fowles
There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could… — Bob Dylan
Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they… — Paul Simon
I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I… — Matthew Macfadyen
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it. — Freya Stark
Play is the work of the child. — Maria Montessori
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort… — Nick Cave
Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that… — Billy Graham
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my… — Heather Armstrong
I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it. — Samuel Goldwyn
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very… — Susanna Moodie
In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other… — Robert Breault
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which… — Unknown Author
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love,… — Robert Breault
How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it. — Jules Michelet
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. — Robert Breault
A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. — Judith Martin
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. — Robert Breault
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. — Robert Breault
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the... — Pablo Casals
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country… — Barbara Kingsolver

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