Child Quotes

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

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.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

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.