The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Maria Montessori

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Agatha Christie

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.
Maurice Strong

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Red Auerbach

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
James M. Barrie

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
Toni Morrison

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
Mencius

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler

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.
John Updike

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul Kalam

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
Billy Connolly

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold