Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old. — Publilius Syrus
A mother's love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother… — Jamie McGuire
Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that… — Cecil Frances Alexander
People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who… — Gautama Buddha
Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free, when there were… — Michael Beckwith
A man growing old becomes a child again. — Sophocles
Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find… — Unknown Author
If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place… — Park Gye-Ok
The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic. — Vicki Lewis Thompson
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. — Plato
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to… — Sophocles
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make… — Gautama Buddha
No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free. — Muhammad
Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where… — Luther Standing Bear
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just… — Mary Blakely
Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family,… — Bill Buford
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults — Olara Otunnu
A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. — Unknown Author
Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure. — Steven Levy
How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way in which it… — Peter Senge
Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet — John Guillebaud
The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can… — Christopher West
When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock
The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child… — Heather O'Neill
When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something… — A. H. Almaas

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