Child Quotes

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'

We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.