Art Quote by Frank Moore Colby

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that…

— Muhammad Ali

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

— W. S. Gilbert

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

— Charles Lamb

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little…

— Alexander Pope

“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't…

— Tom Stoppard

Art is the child of Nature.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't…

— Tom Stoppard

Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for…

— Maud Lindsay

Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If a geographic place rapidly changes in a way that demeans its natural integrity, then children’s early attachment to land is at risk. If…

— Richard Louv

Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we…

— Richard Louv

“Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.”

— Charlotte Mason

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

— Maria Montessori

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow