Child Quotes

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

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.