Child Quotes

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

I was pretty quiet as a child.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.