Child Quotes

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

~ Maria Montessori

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

~ Carl Jung

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

~ V. S. Naipaul

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.

~ Jonathan Kozol

When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

~ Josephine Baker

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

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

~ Robert Neelly Bellah

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

~ Maya Lin

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

~ Kate Winslet

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

~ Brené Brown

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

~ Jill Scott

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.

~ Jessica Biel

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

~ Panayiotis Zavos

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

~ Lev Vygotsky

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

~ Gertrude Ederle

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

~ Daniel Dennett

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

~ Cindy Williams

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

~ Akhenaton

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

~ Karin Slaughter

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

~ Chris Cornell

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

~ Jeff Buckley

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

~ Toni Morrison

I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.

~ Holly Robinson Peete

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

~ Tupac Shakur

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

~ Caitlin Moran

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

~ Alanis Morissette

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

~ Wendy Kopp

A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

~ Ha-Joon Chang

Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

~ Mara Wilson

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

~ Nina Bawden

As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

~ Karan Johar

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

~ Sarah Jessica Parker

Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats at her child's wedding. I feel as responsible for making her feel like a million dollars as I do for somebody in the public eye.

~ Philip Treacy

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

~ Ricardo Montalban

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

~ Clyde Edgerton

The child is father of the man.

~ William Wordsworth

I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a psychologist. But eventually, my destiny led me to acting. Moreover, my dad being an actor, I have grown up in a very filmi environment. I was encouraged to watch films since I was a child.

~ Shraddha Kapoor

Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

~ Orlando Bloom

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.

~ Emilia Clarke