A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Date of birth: 1835-12-18
Date of death: 1922-10-22
Quotes number: 10
Nationality: American
Profession: Author
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.
Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.
Genius is sorrow's child.
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.