(1184 quotes found)
“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare
“The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face”
Jack Handy
“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with”
Plato
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
Groucho Marx
“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”
Washington Irving
“The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.”
A. P. Gouthey
“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.”
Bette Davis