Quotes about Child

Growing old is inevitable, growing up is a choice.

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher.

When I was a child, my grandmother died and was buried in the churchyard in Castlecomer, Ireland.  The following year I went there on holiday.  One day we drove to visit relatives, I in the back seat with my grandfather.  As we pass the graveled driveway leading up to the churchyard, my grandfather, thinking he was unobserved, pressed his face against the window of the car and with a small, hidden motion of his hand, waved. It was then I came to my first understanding of the majesty and vulnerability of love.

A warm breeze blew through my window like a gentle wave lapping the sandy shore in summer at low tide, and as I took in a breath of air that blanketed my body like tall grass in a field I felt for just that moment in time, like I did when I was a child. I felt that I had not one worry, not one burden, nothing was on my mind accept that breeze that made the curtains swell like balloons.

"Think about your childhood for a moment. What was your favorite outdoor place to play? What was that environment like? Do your memories evoke specific sights, scents, and sounds? What did you do there? What did it look like and feel like? Did this place change along with the seasons? What sort of games did you play and what did you discover there?

"Most of us have vivid memories of our favorite childhood play environment. This was the place where we began to discover the wonder of playful exploration. It was the place where we first interacted with the natural world. This place was our introduction to the environment, our community, and the cycles of life.

"The places that adults remember playing in as children are so often natural places - places with a stream, clumps of spongy moss, thick layers of slippery mud, fallen logs, or even a mound of dirt piled high in a vacant lot in the city. There is just something about connecting with the natural world that is so important for all people - particularly children. These are the kinds of experiences that nourish our souls.

"Unfortunately, these days many children don't have the kinds of opportunities that we had not so long ago. Our fast-paced culture now places greater emphasis on going, doing, and becoming, and less on wandering, searching, and discovering. With modern urban and suburban development, natural or wild areas are less available."

When facing a child, I become a child.  When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart, I too am an elderly person, husband, or a wife.  While I am talking with a person, in my heart, nothing exists except that person.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying !.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying !.

Are you pooping in the steering wheel?

"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer."

"Children dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."

"And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?"

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma.  His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future result.  But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom - These are few.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don’t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

I miss you like a child misses his blanket.

The American people are proud to welcome your majesty back to the United States, a nation you've come to know very well. After all you've dined with 10 U.S. presidents. You've helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 -- in 1976

In a darkened world child, do not give way to fear. Believe in light, believe in laughter, and true love will appear.

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.

You are my child, as I am your father. Together we are the family of thoughts. The power of love connects us all together with everything that exists.

When we have
A childlike state of mind,
It becomes extremely easy to find God
Here, there and everywhere.

all i want to make sure of is that she's doing something she loves.  watch your kids when they sit down and absolutely get lost in something.  maybe that's what they should be doing--the thing they're dying to do all the time.

Each child born on earth
  Is a unique promise of God  
To God Himself.

Your son is at five your master, at ten your servant, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.

It is easier to build strong children, than to repair broken men.

Brancusi the  famous disciple of Rodin  said:"When you are no longer a child you are already  dead;When you cease to see the miracles which surround you everyday at each step you are already blind"