Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? — Charles Lamb
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts… — Abraham Maslow
Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God… — J I Packer
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity. — William Stanley Jevons
Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is… — Pope Francis
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see… — Muhammad Yunus
... Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself ... — Muhammad Yunus
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. — Alexander Pope
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though… — Aristotle
Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right… — Adolf Hitler
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only… — Charles Kingsley
Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day.… — Jesse Jackson
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams
Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the… — Terry Brooks
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing… — Edwin Land
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. — Phillips Brooks
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt;… — Stephen King
Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his… — Abraham Lincoln
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick,… — Benjamin Franklin
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington

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