Child Quotes - page 4

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? (Honoré de Balzac)
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. View quote
Martha Beck
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. View quote
Robert Sternberg
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. View quote
Anna Pavlova
When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work. View quote
Keegan-Michael Key
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. View quote
Lisa See
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. View quote
Alden Nowlan
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. View quote
José Martí
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive. View quote
Jean Piaget
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. (Clement Attlee)
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more. View quote
Menachem Begin
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves. View quote
George Eliot
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. View quote
Truman Capote
I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out. View quote
Richard Burton
O thou child of many prayers Life hath quicksands life hath snares. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. View quote
Bruce Lee
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life. View quote
Giuseppe Mazzini
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. View quote
Carl Sandburg