Child Quotes

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline.

Perfection is the child of time.

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

We believe every child is created equal with the right to life.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.