Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

The burnt child dreads the fire. — Ben Jonson
My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child. — Bob Schaffer
There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil — Dennis Prager
I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those… — Dennis Prager
Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart — Dennis Prager
When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one. — Peter Handke
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as… — Mary Oliver
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. — Randall Jarrell
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering… — Delmore Schwartz
The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling… — Marcella Hazan
As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning… — Anselm Kiefer
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself… — Aneurin Bevan
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always… — Michael Haneke
The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence. — Rosamunde Pilcher
One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student… — Ruben Hinojosa
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in… — Ruben Hinojosa
The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would… — Peter Benchley
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that… — Annie Besant
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a… — Ed Markey
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an… — Ed Markey
It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child — Susan Smith
Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child... — Pat Benatar
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.… — Jasper Johns
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather… — Chantal Kreviazuk
Our internal artist is always our creative child. — Julia Cameron

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