Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

At some point, it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties… — Beyonce Knowles
My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention. — Woody Allen
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and… — Leonardo da Vinci
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did… — Henry Ward Beecher
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him… — A. E. Housman
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' — Adrienne Rich
You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have… — Unknown Author
Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to… — Mariah Carey
I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in… — Madonna Ciccone
Your children teach you so much. It's a real mirror of yourself. — Kate Hudson
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and… — Pope John Paul II
Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with wonder at this… — Pope John Paul II
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that… — Sigmund Freud
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that… — Leo Buscaglia
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move… — Unknown Author
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so… — Henry David Thoreau
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child… — Thomas Sowell
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender… — Thomas Huxley
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat… — Barack Obama
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery… — Louis Agassiz
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery… — E. O. Wilson
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude… — Herbert Spencer
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does… — John Steinbeck

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