Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on… — P.J. O'Rourke
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. — Jack Handey
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis
And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd — William Shakespeare
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child. — Jet Li
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on. — Janet Morris
Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get… — Chinua Achebe
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still… — Black Elk
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. — Julian Bond
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf… — John Brown
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have… — William Wells Brown
None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success. — Marva Collins
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong. — Marva Collins
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful… — Lloyd deMause
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all. — Bernadette Devlin
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the… — John Dewey
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of… — Thomas A. Edison
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced. — Margaret Halsey
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from… — Edith Hamilton
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is… — Jonathan Kozol
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the… — Audre Lorde
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows… — Beryl Markham
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. — Michel de Montaigne

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