Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will. — Mary Ruwart
Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon… — L. Neil Smith
If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and… — L. Neil Smith
Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from… — India.Arie
I’ve grown up, everyone’s got to grow up. But there’s something inside me, I’m always going to have that little sort of - how do… — Prince
I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know? — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who… — Alan Dershowitz
When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away.… — Josephine Baker
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself,… — Alexander Herzen
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist… — Zelda Popkin
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it… — Barry Commoner
When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic. I see the expression on… — Dallin H. Oaks
With the birth of the babe in Bethlehem, there emerged a great endowment—a power stronger than weapons, a wealth more lasting than the coins of… — Thomas S. Monson
Everything that occurs in the temple is uplifting and ennobling. It speaks of life here and life beyond the grave. It speaks of the importance… — Gordon B. Hinckley
God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief season—He sees you as His child. He… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing.… — James Cameron
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles… — Melinda Gates
That brings us to iPad. We think the iPad is the poster-child of the post-PC world. — Tim Cook
I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually. — Gordon Brown
Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are,… — Neymar
When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children… — Polly Horvath
Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the… — Richard Dawkins
As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage.… — Ewan McGregor
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,… — Grant Morrison

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