Child Quotes

If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.