Child Quotes

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

I was an only child.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

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

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.

I was a monster, a problem child.