Child Quotes

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Reducing teen pregnancy and birth is one of the most effective ways of reducing child poverty in the country.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

If parents don't vaccinate their child, then you have 3 per thousand risk of death if they get measles. But they may not get measles if everyone around them is vaccinated because the virus is not going to be around them.

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

The child-soul is an ever-bubbling fountain in the world of humanity.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

I'm a loner as a person, but then I always was, even as a child.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

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.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.