Child Quotes

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

An honest man is always a child.