Child Quotes

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

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.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.