Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and… — Le Corbusier
I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman… — Ariel Sharon
Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the… — Wallace Stegner
Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for… — Richard Adams
There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care. — Harriet Harman
Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s… — Nadine Gordimer
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. — Nadine Gordimer
I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office. — George W. Bush
I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy… — George W. Bush
Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight,… — Toni Morrison
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of… — Anna Garlin Spencer
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had… — Charles E. Burchfield
I am a child of God. I always carry that with me. — Maya Angelou
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will… — Josh Billings
Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you… — Rajneesh
More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did… — James McGreevey
Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away… — Violet Fane
Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be… — Lewis Sperry Chafer
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. — Pope Leo X
I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to… — Ayelet Waldman
We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open… — Bernard Nathanson
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they… — L. Ron Hubbard
When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in… — Shirley MacLaine
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.… — Alison Lurie
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child. — Edward Abbey

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