Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom… — Sherwood Anderson
Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a… — Thom Yorke
Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there. — Thom Yorke
The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that… — Wassily Kandinsky
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of… — Wassily Kandinsky
The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in… — Morrie Schwartz
I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I… — Emily Bronte
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness... — George Eliot
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more… — Alfred Bester
All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing… — Charles Hodge
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a… — Madeleine L'Engle
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they… — Madeleine L'Engle
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that. — Diana Wynne Jones
I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just dive in and… — Jean Craighead George
Every German child learns to speak English in school. — Cornelia Funke
Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and… — Joy Harjo
I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child — Carol Alt
Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature. — Tariq Ramadan
One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of… — Mike Tyson
I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional… — Sonia Sotomayor
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and cultural time of… — Dr. John
I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate… — Maurice Sendak
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating… — Ezra Jack Keats
Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that,… — Eric Carle
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've… — Michael Morpurgo

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