Child Quotes

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.