A Christian telling an atheist they’re going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they’re not getting any presents from Santa.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

Just as a parent is pleased with the efforts of his little child to please him, though it be only by picking a daisy or walking across a room, so is our Father in heaven pleased with the poor performances of His believing children. He looks at the motive, principle, and intention of their actions, and not merely at their quantity and quality. He regards them as members of His own dear Son.

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

There are myriads of Christians who know every article of the Athanasian, Nicene, and Apostolic Creeds, and yet know less of real Christianity than a little child who only knows that he loves Christ.

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, – these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, – these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.

I believe that I’m an actor to this day because of ‘Star Wars.’ I saw ‘Star Wars’ as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.

A child is still one more hope Even in this careworn world.

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

It’s an emotional need for a mother to have the maternal desire. Either it emerges from the accidental loss of a child or the incapacity to have their own child.

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;
He has devoured the infant child.
The infant child is not aware
He has been eaten by the bear.

Because you’re a child and you have no way to compare your life to other people’s lives. Your foremost need is to stay safe within the only life you know.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension

I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit

Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form.

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.

One can’t live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

That is what you’re making of the end of your mother’s life, child. What will you make of your own?

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father’s crimes.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches – especially when you’re a child – it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.

Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He’s not flesh and blood, he’s aluminum alloy!” The doctor said gently, What I’m going to say will sound pretty wild. But you’re not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child’s gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender.

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it’s an act of complicit cruelty.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

You can’t teach a child if the situation in which he is studying is intolerable… no Negro child who is going to a segregated school, which costs millions of dollars, is fooled about why he’s there. He’s there because white people want him there and no place else.

Great and little cannot understand one another… But in every child born of man, lurks some seed of greatness.

You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Freddie Mercury was a huge source of inspiration to me as a child

There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child is in action and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back

I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are—you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But, maybe I get carried away by some trends

It’s so much better, where possible, to try and forgive offenders and give them a second chance, just like my mother and father did so often with me as a child.

Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that’s somebody’s child.

We’re in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that’s what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil

People think, ‘Well, religion is good for mankind. It must be worth teaching it to children.’ Well, you have to look at the texts. You have to say, ‘Do I, as a parent, if I can avoid it, want my child to be taught this?’

No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere.

I’ve grown up, everyone’s got to grow up. But there’s something inside me, I’m always going to have that little sort of – how do you say? – child streak.

He will help his children against the impossible odds for those who follow him undoubtedly.

You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can’t possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well. The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To Find in the left one Its consolation.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

I just turned 40, and it’s weird to think that I’ve been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn’t do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing ‘Young and the Restless.’ Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.

Touch my children and I will eat your hands off your freakin arms.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person. Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him. In fact, that little being who depends on you so much, makes you also to have a huge dependence on him.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Life is not meant to be easy my child, but take courage: it can be delightful.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk

The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child

The sight of a child will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons—longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted personal.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves

As a child, I felt myself to be alone and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

Child,’ said the Lion, ‘I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.

I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!’ ‘Nonsense, child; you’ll think your husband better.’ ‘Impossible.

There was … a dreamy feeling that this child was somehow a message come to him from that far-off life.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

I ain’t doing my duty by that boy, and that’s the Lord’s truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a-laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own dead sister’s boy, poor thing, and I ain’t got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.

Once a man and twice a child

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible.

She never stumbles, she’s got no place to fall. She’s nobody’s child, the law can’t touch her at all.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II. I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

I am a child who is getting on.

Don’t give a child a fish but show him how to fish.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today

Messi is the best player on the planet and he keeps on improving at Barça, now the best team in the world. What Messi does on and off the pitch is an inspiration for children who dream of becoming a footballer.

Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child’s life, we add light and healing to our own lives.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. The God of the Bible – not only did He order His chosen people to carry out literal genocide – I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman, child, and, you know, donkey and so on, because hundreds of years ago they got in your way when you were trying to cross the desert – not only did He do things like that, but, after all, the God of the Bible was ready to destroy every living creature on earth because some humans irritated Him. That’s the story of Noah. I mean, that’s beyond genocide – you don’t know how to describe this creature. Somebody offended Him, and He was going to destroy every living being on earth? And then He was talked into allowing two of each species to stay alive – that’s supposed to be gentle and wonderful.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

It’s a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young but it happened. And I’m happy she’s out of pain, ’cause I love her and she’s my friend.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Not many people know this about me, but I’m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

Success is the child of audacity.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child

My dad’s probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that’s not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents

The tyrant is a child of Pride who drinks from his sickening cup recklessness and vanity, until from his high crest headlong he plummets to the dust of hope

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

I always thought, if I can affect one kid and help him or her fulfill their dreams, that would be kinda neat, so I want to ensure that I’m remembered in a good way.

The only thing that matters is playing. I have enjoyed it since I was a little boy, and I still try to do that every time I go out on to a pitch. I always say that when I no longer enjoy it or it’s no longer fun to do it, then I won’t do it anymore. I do it because I love it and that’s all I care about

When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it’s not something you want to remember or think about.

So the next time we battle with our kids over those vegetables, or they refuse to join us for a walk to the park, the next time we struggle to change our schools or communities, we need to remind ourselves that parents everywhere are going through exactly the same thing. We have to remember that we’re all in this together.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.