Child Quotes

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

I was a very unique child.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.