Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
Deepak ChopraDo not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.
Gustave FlaubertOne of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is I think to have a happy childhood.
Agatha ChristieEvery book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch HedbergIf your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.
George CarlinIf you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette DavisAn honest man is always a child.
SocratesA man growing old becomes a child again.
SophoclesDon't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath TagoreMy son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time when you get out of bed it's feet first!
Henny YoungmanA child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
Harvey FiersteinOne looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl JungThen not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
PlatoThere is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Agatha ChristieThere's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma BombeckThe only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Johnny DeppYoungsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma BombeckBehold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeWhat a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee, and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Rodney DangerfieldA torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEach child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. HumphreyAs a child I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
Will SmithAnd I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear.
William BlakeA child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. KennedyBasically I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Bette DavisEvery child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath TagorePiping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child.
William BlakeI believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers, by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
John DeweyAs a child of God I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul KalamA child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George SantayanaA child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy GrahamIt is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Desmond TutuA creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric HofferThe child who desires education will be bettered by it, the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John RuskinCall not that man wretched who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric HofferI was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend -- I didn't bother with him.
George CarlinAny system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be true.
Thomas PaineIt is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother TeresaBefore I would hurt a child I would slit my wrists.
Michael JacksonThe father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
ConfuciusThe 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.
ChanakyaSoon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
Max MullerA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested, on the contrary - he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous HuxleyI think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.
Alanis MorissetteBecause I think every child star suffers through this period, because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow and they want to keep you little forever.
Michael JacksonAs a child I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
Dave BarryA child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.
Dave BarryBeing a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour she can hurt you.
Erma BombeckAs I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill CosbyWould not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
Max MullerI think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
Joan RiversBear up my child, bear up, Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
SophoclesA blank slate -- and you get to play.
George CarlinThe quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Johnny DeppChildhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAlways end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby