[ child Quotes ]
253 Quotations
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Genius is sorrow's child.
[ Genius ]
John Adams
16 votes
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
Ama Ata Aidoo
24 votes
No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
[ Taxes and Taxation ]
American Proverb
16 votes
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
[ Rock and Roll ]
Ian Anderson
22 votes
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
[ Children ]
Maya Angelou
22 votes
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
[ Arts and Artists ]
Jean Arp
24 votes
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
[ Age and Aging ]
Lady Nancy Astor
24 votes
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
[ Communism and Socialism ]
Clement Attlee
21 votes
You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
[ Sex ]
W. H. Auden
20 votes
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
[ Death and Dying ]
Red Auerbach
21 votes
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
[ Children ]
Gaston Bachelard
20 votes
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
[ Education ]
James Baldwin
17 votes
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
[ Strength ]
Sir James M. Barrie
22 votes
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
[ Inheritance ]
Orlando A. Battista
21 votes
Genius is childhood recaptured.
[ Genius ]
Jean Baudrillard
18 votes
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
[ Adulthood ]
Simone De Beauvoir
15 votes
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
[ Mothers ]
Henry Ward Beecher
17 votes
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
[ Family ]
Henry Ward Beecher
23 votes
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
[ Travel and Tourism ]
Robert Benchley
21 votes
To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
[ Upbringing ]
Josh Billings
22 votes
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
[ Childhood ]
Louise Bogan
20 votes
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
[ Children ]
Erma Bombeck
19 votes
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
[ The future ]
Napoleon Bonaparte
17 votes
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
24 votes
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
[ Children ]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
17 votes
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
[ Education ]
Patrick Buchanan
28 votes
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
[ Marriage ]
Barbara Bush
18 votes
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
Barbara Bush
15 votes
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
Samuel Butler
16 votes
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
[ Punishment ]
Samuel Butler
15 votes
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
[ Learning ]
Robert Byrne
19 votes
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
[ Home ]
Lord Byron
18 votes
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
Miguel De Cervantes
14 votes
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
[ Children ]
Alexander Chase
21 votes
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
[ Age and Aging ]
Lydia M. Child
18 votes