Child Quotes

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an ...

Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at st...

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I stud...

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to...

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that t...

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealt...

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tender...

There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glo...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled wit...

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educat...

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I star...

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That w...

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell the...

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I...

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her...

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a sm...

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay,...

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my ...

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guarante...

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more...

I know what it is: it's a green mamba snake away up in the tree. You don't have to be afraid of them...

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and ...

Success is the child of audacity.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and ...

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when chi...

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his u...

Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong...

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of hap...

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Chris...

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchange...

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinn...

You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choice...

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether...

So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their chil...

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remai...

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - ""I ...

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl ...

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child.

-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to...

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire B...

...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just a...

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health car...

Reading to small children is a specialty.

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired sta...

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with...

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes...

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole ag...

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lac...

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

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

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

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

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals o...

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they mi...

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being s...

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We cam...

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is ...

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. ...

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the u...

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new ...

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childis...

Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between hu...

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the co...

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach...

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is...

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first moveme...