Child Quotes - page 3

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. (Carl Jung)
To be an actor, you have to be a child. View quote
Paul Newman
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. View quote
H. G. Wells
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. View quote
Stephen Spender
Perfection is the child of time... View quote
Joseph Hall
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. View quote
Erma Bombeck
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. View quote
Charles Dickens
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. (Erik Erikson)
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. View quote
Dave Barry
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. View quote
Marie Curie
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Success is the child of audacity. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. View quote
Josh Billings