CHILD QUOTES

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
  ~ Don Marquis ~
• Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
  ~ Charles Lamb ~
• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
  ~ Mary Howitt ~
• Why hate a child with bad character? When you can help correct it.
  ~ Jaja Otokini ~
• That a child frowns when he's corrected by an elder doesn't make the child stupid but just a child.
  ~ Jaja Otokini ~
• It is better for an evil child not to be born than to rejoice over his birth and later suffers for his evil deeds.
  ~ Sirlanto Sirlanto ~
• You are a good father only if your children are proud of you.
  ~ Bernard Gabriel Okurut ~
• Beating your wife before your children makes you a monster, and as time goes on their fear and respect for you will turn to hatred.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
  ~ Homer ~
• What will a child learn sooner than a song?
  ~ Alexander Pope ~
• What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
  ~ Wystan Hugh Auden ~
• The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.
  ~ John Milton ~
• The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
  ~ Dorothy Parker ~
• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.
  ~ Dorothy Parker ~
• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
  ~ Dorothy Parker ~
• Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
  ~ Randall Jarrell ~
• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
  ~ Rudyard Kipling ~
• No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
  ~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~
• Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
  ~ John Dryden ~
• Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
  ~ Jack Kerouac ~
• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
  ~ Charles Lamb ~
• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
  ~ Homer ~
• Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?
  ~ Lewis Carroll ~
• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
  ~ William Cullen Bryant ~
• Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
  ~ Edgar Allan Poe ~
• Children are all foreigners.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stay Invention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
  ~ Sir Philip Sidney ~
• Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
  ~ John Wilmot ~
• Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
  ~ John Wilmot ~
• Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.
  ~ John Wilmot ~
• Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• In the book of life, the chapter on childhood is written with the ink of innocence.
  ~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
• There is no scent of nostalgia like a fragrance drawn from the garden of childhood memories.
  ~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
• Losing a child...I've felt my heart break before,but not like this my child. Not like this. I'm hurting and I know I'm hurting because I wouldn't be hurting if I didn't love you so much.
  ~ Jade Oakes ~
• "In the dance of life, let your childhood dreams be the guiding stars, lighting up your path with delight." - MCLC
  ~ Ma. Cristina Colima ~
• Life is but pain of mother during her child's birth .
  ~ Nawaz Hussain Parray ~
• Many parents are sacrificing their lives for their children's future but their children don't know about that. They are wasting their time with their girlfriends.
  ~ Mohammed Arshad Amin ~
• In order to play with the kids, I had to put aside my maturity and allow the childish nature in me to completely possess me. And once again, I was able to experience the kind of happiness I haven't felt since I became an adult, since life took away my innocence. What a beautiful way to start the new year!
  ~ Lil Destar ~
• One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
  ~ Sandra Lee ~
• I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
  ~ Sandra Lee ~
• I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
  ~ Sandra Lee ~
• I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
  ~ Edward Norton ~
• If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.
  ~ Tim Tebow ~
• In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~
• I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~
• I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~