Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach… — Og Mandino
Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem. — Mike Fitzpatrick
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able… — R. Buckminster Fuller
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden. — Sri Aurobindo
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic… — Sri Aurobindo
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a… — Lynn Hill
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge.… — Philipp Meyer
I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger,… — Jerry Rubin
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. — Leon Blum
I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin,… — Paul Wellstone
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child — Stephen Stills
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them. — Maria Montessori
The child becomes a person through work. — Maria Montessori
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. — Maria Montessori
To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself. — Maria Montessori
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom. — Maria Montessori
The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain… — Maria Montessori
But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him… — Maria Montessori
Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon… — Ravi Zacharias
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. — Herbert Spencer
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes,… — Herbert Spencer
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. — Bill Frist
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to… — Robert Liparulo
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. — Peter Paul Rubens

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