child quotes

• Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. (George Bernard Shaw) [life/child/take/courage]
• An old man is twice a child. (William Shakespeare) [child]
• 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) [child//life/price]
• Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. (Maya Angelou) [needs/child/wholeness/god]
• Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. (Clement Attlee) [child]
• To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. (Red Auerbach) [child/future/child/past]
• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. (James Baldwin) [child/child]
• There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. (James Baldwin) [child]
• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. (Henry Ward Beecher) [love/child]
• When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. (Leon Blum) [child]
• The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. ( Napoleon I) [future/child/mother]
• Then spare the rod and spoil the child. (Samuel Butler) [child]
• Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. (Elias Canetti) [find/pleasure/child]
• A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [child]
• The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [child/being/fear]
• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. (Marcus Cicero) [child/past/knowledge]
• To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. (Marcus Cicero) [child]
• Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. (Leonard Cohen) [prayer/child/language]
• The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. (Alistair Cooke) [child/feeling/give/right]
• Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. (Aleister Crowley) [child/fear/form]
• If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. (Bette Davis) [child]
• Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. (Bette Davis) [discipline/child/needs/love]
• Success is the child of audacity. (Benjamin Disraeli) [child]
• The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. (Isadora Duncan) [give/child]
• To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together. (Marguerite Duras) [love/child/love/love]
• Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life. (George Eliot) [demand/child/beliefs/life]
• There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [child/mother]
• The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [child/fool/sound/power]
• Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [respect/child/solitude]
• Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [child]
• A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [desires/child/character/fortune]

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