Child Quotes

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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

There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.