Child Quotes

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.

I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.