Child Quotes

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.
Harvey Fierstein

May, Seize, Yours

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
Guru Nanak

Young, Nor, Neither

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin Powell

Great, Forward, Whole

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Laurence J. Peter

American, Television, Force

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
Honore de Balzac

Two, Image, Fruit

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
Rose Kennedy

Love, Work, Best

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Bette Davis

Home, Cannot, Bit

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody

Faith, Religion, Children

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Epictetus

Wife, Lost, Dead

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger

Love, Best, Mean

Genius is sorrow's child.
John Adams

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt

Ignorance, Prejudice

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Simone de Beauvoir

Age, Adult, Blown

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
Swami Sivananda

Heart, Forget, Done

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Fran Lebowitz

Future, Him, Serious

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Marie Curie

Him, Though, Natural

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin

Education, Desires, Dislikes

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
Victoria Beckham

Heart, Drawing, Presents

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley

Religion, Beautiful, Wise

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
Drew Barrymore

Happy, Girl, Flower

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
Karl Lagerfeld

Attitude, Mother, Nothing

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

Him, Free, Potential

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
Stephen Covey

Home, Positive, Strength

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger Woods

Dad, Sports, Fun

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James A. Baldwin

Involved, Sanctity, Bombing

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz

Experience, Company, Adult

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold

Marriage, Wedding, Real

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

Happy, Together, Old

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Desmond Tutu

Education, Best, Give

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
Christopher Meloni

Fun, Yourself, Ask

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