Child Quotes

• "Birds in their little nests agree: And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight."
  By: Isaac Watts, Divine Songs (XVII)
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• "As each one wishes his children to be, so they are. [Lat., Ut quisque suum vult esse, ita est.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi (III, 3, 46)
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• "For he who has acquired the habit of lying or deceiving his father, will do the same with less remorse to others. I believe that it is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect, and by gentleness, than by fear. [Lat., Nam qui mentiri, aut fallere insuerit patrem, aut Audebit: tanto magis audebit caeteros. Pudore et liberalitate liberos Retinere satius esse credo, quam meto.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi (I, 1, 30)
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• "It is better to keep children to their duty by a sense of honor and by kindness than by fear."
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
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• "No man can tell but he that loves his children how many delicious assents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me."
  By: Bayard Taylor, The Poet's Journal--Third Evening
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• "Not a child: I call myself a boy," Says my king, with accent stern yet mild; Now nine years have brought him change of joy-- "Not a child.""
  By: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Not a Child (st. 1)
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• "If there is anything that will endure The eye of God, because it still is pure, It is the spirit of a little child, Fresh from his hand, and therefore undefiled."
  By: Richard Henry Stoddard, The Children's Prayer
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• "Children are the keys of Paradise, They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer."
  By: Richard Henry Stoddard, The Children's Prayer
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• "While here at home, in shining day, We round the sunny garden play, Each little Indian sleepy-head Is being kissed and put to bed."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, "The Sun's Travels"
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• "Every night my prayers I say, And get my dinner every day, And every day that I've been good, I get an orange after food."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, "System"
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• "When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, "Looking Forward"
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• "In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, "Bed in Summer" BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, "A Thought" BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "A truthful page is childhood's lovely face, Whereon sweet Innocence has record made-- An outward semblance of the young heart's grace, Where truth, and love, and trust are all portrayed."
  By: Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, On a Picture of Lillie
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• "A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer's Hymn to Mercury (st. 69)
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