Child Quotes

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.

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 should be curiosity.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.

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

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child.

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.