Child Quotes

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.