Child Quotes

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

My inner child is not wounded.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.