Child Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso)
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. View quote
William Hazlitt
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. View quote
Thomas Szasz
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. View quote
Thomas Paine
A child needs your love most when he deserves it least. View quote
Erma Bombeck
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
A child shows his toy, a man hides his. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. View quote
Bill Cosby
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. View quote
Maria Montessori
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. (Leonard Bernstein)
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. View quote
Susie Bright
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. View quote
Norman Mailer
There are only two things a child will share willingly-communicable diseases and his mother's age. View quote
Benjamin Spock
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. View quote
Clay Aiken
As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child. View quote
Sophia Loren
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. View quote
Erma Bombeck
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child. View quote
Dan Quayle
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! (William Shakespeare)
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. View quote
Bette Davis
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. View quote
Randall Jarrell