A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
Wayne Brady

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry

I started writing stories as a child.
Danielle Steel

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Don Van Vliet

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Isadora Duncan

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Anne Sullivan

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Anne Sullivan

To be an actor you have to be a child.
Paul Newman

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

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
Mary Oliver

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson

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.
Meriwether Lewis

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
Pablo Casals

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
Sandra Cisneros

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott