The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
‐‐ Lewis Mumford
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson
The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
‐‐ B. H. Liddell Hart
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
‐‐ Joseph Addison
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
‐‐ Dalton Trumbo
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
‐‐ Henry L. Stimson
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
‐‐ John Gresham Machen
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
‐‐ Don Marquis
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
‐‐ Marguerite Gardiner
The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
‐‐ Nelson Rockefeller
The chief problem with the individual investor: He or she typically buys when the market is high and thinks it's going to go up, and sells when the market is low and thinks it's going to go down.
‐‐ Harry Markowitz
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
‐‐ C. Northcote Parkinson
The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.
‐‐ Timothy Noah
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
‐‐ Robert Frost
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
‐‐ Michael Porter
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
‐‐ Maria Montessori
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.
‐‐ Joseph Rotblat
The chief thing is to make children feel good about themselves. They want to step into the shoes of a hero who is bigger and stronger, to face tremendous dangers and come home safely for tea.
‐‐ Geraldine McCaughrean
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
‐‐ Hippocrates
The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.
‐‐ Geoff Hoon
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
‐‐ Ken Calvert
The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
‐‐ Judy Blume
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
‐‐ Rachel Blanchard
The child has no way of knowing what's good information.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
‐‐ Maria Montessori
The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
‐‐ Salmon P. Chase
The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
‐‐ Maria Montessori
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
‐‐ Pablo Casals
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
‐‐ Charlotte Smith
The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.
‐‐ Jean Piaget
The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.
‐‐ Jean Piaget
The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
‐‐ Maria Montessori
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
‐‐ Benjamin Spock
The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.
‐‐ Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
‐‐ Maria Montessori
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
‐‐ John Ruskin
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.
‐‐ Michael Leunig
The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
‐‐ Ferid Murad
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
‐‐ Henry Lawson
The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
‐‐ Sally Phillips
The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.
‐‐ Martin Bashir
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.
‐‐ Phillip Noyce
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
‐‐ Jackie Kennedy
The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.
‐‐ Thomas Goodwin
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll