Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that… — Patrick Henry
For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when… — Richard Avedon
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit… — John Hume
These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child… — John Hume
It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing, — Ted Lindsay
I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic. — Steve Earle
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine. — Margaret Sanger
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child... — Margaret Sanger
No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood. — Margaret Sanger
When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and… — John Dewey
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings. — Chinua Achebe
This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down... — R.K. Narayan
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. — Carl Jung
In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and… — Carl Jung
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider… — Rudolf Dreikurs
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in… — Erich Fromm
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off… — William James
Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me… — Elizabeth Hardwick
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. — Karl Marx
Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it… — Hannah Arendt
It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day. — Homer
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. — Ronald Reagan
Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown,… — Dan Quayle

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