Child Quotes

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

Republicans are definitely pro-birth - they'll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in, but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.