Child Quotes

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

It takes three to make a child.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

I would exchange everything for one child of my own.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.