Child Quotes

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.

I was a monster, a problem child.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

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.