Children Quotes
18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that…
— Adrienne Rich
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of…
— John Vianney
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As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide…
— Marie Clay
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Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning…
— Marilyn Jager Adams
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There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
— Mary Ellen Chase
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young…
— William James
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
— Kate DiCamillo
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My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a…
— Kirk Douglas
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Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.
— Erik Brynjolfsson
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When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children are prodigies!' But…
— Don Tapscott
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Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a…
— Rajneesh
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You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not…
— Mother Teresa
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When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to…
— Lewis Sperry Chafer
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Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
— John Keats
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony
— John Stott
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God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. One can't decide for…
— Mel Gibson
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My case was wrongfully decided, and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.
— Norma McCorvey
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I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman…
— Susan B. Anthony
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You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.
— Douglas Wilson
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Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
— Victoria Woodhull
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We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is…
— Mother Teresa
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Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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