All Quotes

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.
‐‐ John Roberts

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
‐‐ Jack Adams

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
‐‐ Thurgood Marshall

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.
‐‐ Dave Pelzer

A child can escape the shadows.
‐‐ Steve Largent

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
‐‐ Michael Gambon

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
‐‐ Rudolf Otto

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
‐‐ George Santayana

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
‐‐ Rita Levi-Montalcini

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
‐‐ Jose Marti

A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
‐‐ Lyman Abbott

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
‐‐ Alice Meynell

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
‐‐ Juvenal

A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?
‐‐ Alexis Stewart

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
‐‐ Tim Crouch

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

A 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 Huxley

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
‐‐ Frank A. Clark

A child miseducated is a child lost.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
‐‐ Bob Keeshan

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
‐‐ Daniel Dennett

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
‐‐ George Muller

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
‐‐ Julien Green

A child's first teacher is its mother.
‐‐ Peng Liyuan

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
‐‐ Joe Manchin

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
‐‐ Lev Vygotsky

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
‐‐ Jake Roberts

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
‐‐ James S. Coleman

A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
‐‐ Arthur Miller

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
‐‐ Zoe Saldana

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
‐‐ Alice Miller

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
‐‐ Nadine Gordimer

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
‐‐ Pablo Neruda

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
‐‐ Jose Marti

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
‐‐ Fred G. Gosman

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
‐‐ Billy Graham

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
‐‐ Bennet Omalu

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
‐‐ Alexander Cockburn