Child Quotes

How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

I am a child of God.

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.