Child Quotes

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Peace, Laughter

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.
Marianne Williamson

God, Nothing, Small

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.
Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Morning, Name

A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles

Old, Again, Growing

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren

Alone, Mother, Thoughts

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Friendship, Parent

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Mind, True

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

Between, Adult, Average

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin

Father, Human, Left

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
Will Smith

Life, Long, Remember

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

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
Groucho Marx

Understand, Find, Why

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato

Time, Old, Second

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce

Mother, Feeling, Chilly

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso

Took, Four, Lifetime

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Johnny Depp

Life, Simple, Different

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Solitude, Himself, Creation

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Play, Changes

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
Michael Jackson

Through, Keep, Start

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
Michael Jackson

Everything, Place, Wanted

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
Johnny Depp

Life, Family, Angry

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
Michael Jackson

Hurt, Before, Wrists

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Charles Stanley

Leadership, God, Design

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson

Life, Truth, Children

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Michael Jackson

Again, Written, Harm

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
John Henrik Clarke

God, Spiritual, Become

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein

Future, Forward, Woman

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