Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love. — Zig Ziglar
Stay a child while you can be a child. — Stephen Sondheim
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. — Shel Silverstein
If parents would only realize how they bore their children. — George Bernard Shaw
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease… — Fran Lebowitz
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. — Laurence J. Peter
Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on… — Lewis H. Lapham
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children. — Kingsley Amis
I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady. — Lenny Bruce
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. — Neal Cassady
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. — Thomas A. Edison
When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it… — Susan Boyle
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he… — Maria Montessori
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own… — Samuel Johnson
The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he… — Maria Montessori
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. — Maria Montessori
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next… — Maria Montessori
The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. — Maria Montessori
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the… — Thomas Adams
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. — Malcolm X
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… — Robertson Davies
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their… — Cesar Chavez

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