Child Quotes

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett

Family, Two, Leave

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine

Peace, May, Trouble

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

Respect, True, Parents

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

Peace, Mother, Greatest

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby

End, Name, Carry

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.
Plato

Life, Men, Real

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Mother, Gift, Ask

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Hope, Home

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Good, Deep, Book

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

Life, Dreams, Beauty

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.
Bruce Lee

Human, Honest, Since

An honest man is always a child.
Socrates

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

Someone, Understand, Five

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

Problem, Once, Artist

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

Wise, Father, Knows

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale Evans

Love, Time, Christmas

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Yourself, Live

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
Elizabeth Taylor

Woman, Body, Emotions

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Death, Tragedy

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

Change, Wish, Whether

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.
Joe Manchin

Family, Teacher, Friend

A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush

Life, Time, Husband

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Human, Feelings

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare

Tooth, Serpent, Thankless

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Duty, Protect

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.
Angie Stone

Karma, End, Woman

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.
Erich Fromm

Love, Mother, Help

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

Real, Play, Wants

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

Mother, Sleep, Him

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