Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray Bradbury

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
George W. Bush

Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
Sophia Loren

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
Joseph Wood Krutch

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Jackie Chan

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
Thabo Mbeki

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
E. B. White

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
Kate Moss

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
Mencius

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Orison Swett Marden

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Truman Capote

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
Billy Connolly

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
Beverly Cleary

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
Beverly Cleary

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner