Child Quotes

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected.

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.