A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Bill Vaughan

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Norman Mailer

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

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Carl Sandburg

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
Melanie Klein

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
Jean Piaget

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
Virginia Satir

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Jose Marti

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
Jose Marti

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
Nora Ephron

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
King Solomon

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori