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

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

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
Tupac Shakur

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings

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

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.
Don Adams

It takes three to make a child.
e. e. cummings

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
Layne Staley

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
B. F. Skinner