Child Quotes

Don't set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.
Alanis Morissette

Great, Anger, Bad

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker

Country, Learned, Point

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

Him, Give, Shape

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

Travel, Yourself, Once

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley

Training, Plan, Hand

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
Jane Smiley

May, Ideas, Belief

I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.
Adele

God, True, House

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
Max Muller

Soon, Strangers, Ceases

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Trust, Gift

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

Good, Evil, Between

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Charles Lamb

Strength, Weakness, Credulity

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
Alice Walker

Respect, Justice, Try

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
Desmond Tutu

Dreams, Future, Become

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle

Mother, Understand, Between

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
Valerie Bertinelli

Divorce, Hurting, Fault

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Long, Respects, Remained

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid

Promise, Fulfilled

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.
Christina Applegate

Mother, Struggle, Makes

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson

Toy, Youngest, Operate

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
Bob Ney

Time, Sex, Justice

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
William Temple

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Christopher Morley

Mind, Small, Effort

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Heart, Act, Ourselves

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren

Mother, Her, Once

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
Martha Beck

Times, Adult, Average

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
Dave Barry

Afraid, Example, Shots

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Learn, Endure, Ought

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Eric Hoffer

Mother, Woman, Young

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
Gunter Grass

Great, Liar, Mother

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