Child Quotes

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.

How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.