Child Quotes

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Genius is sorrow's child.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

I'm married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.