Child Quotes

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can't say that I wish I hadn't done it. I used to say, 'No, I didn't miss any of my childhood,' but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it's a little weird.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

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.