Child Quotes - page 2

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. (Bill Cosby)
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. View quote
Jane Smiley
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. View quote
Sam Levenson
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. View quote
Germaine Greer
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. View quote
Groucho Marx
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. View quote
Mary Pickford
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. View quote
John Updike
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. View quote
Horace Mann
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. View quote
Maria Montessori
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. (Robert N. Bellah)
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. View quote
Irena Sendler
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. View quote
Cicero
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. View quote
Alexander Pope
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. View quote
Norman Mailer
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. (George Santayana)
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. View quote
Benjamin Spock
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. View quote
Hilaire Belloc