- Sleep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Child Quotes
On childhood, creativity, and growing up.
Some quotes treat a creative project as being as demanding as raising a child; others come from adults looking back at being teased, being an only child, or noticing how plainly children can speak the truth. Childhood extends that memory.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Procedure
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- Nov 07, 2020
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I had loved history because it showed so many alternative worlds.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a child, I was witness to protests against a film or a play or a book. All through my growing years, I found various people or organisations protesting against something.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child I was paid 50p by my family to sing/mime or put on little shows. They probably pay me #50 now to stop!
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020