Child Quotes

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old I look much younger. I look like a child.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

The child is father of the man.

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.