Child Quotes

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.

Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'