Child Quotes

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say, but the love of money is the root of all evil, and this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

I'd slit my wrists rather than hurt a child. I could never do that. No one will ever know how much these wicked rumors have hurt me.

I love conversations with kids in the meet and greet lines - little people with little voices! I love babies. Someday I would love to be a parent, but I want that time to come when I've experienced so much of the world. My life will be devoted to making that child's life as wonderful, beautiful, magical and perfect as it can possibly be. I want to wait until there is no ounce of me left that has anything self-centered to experience.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step. Your child takes another.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.