Child Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

An honest man is always a child.

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