Child Quotes

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.

And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.

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

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline.

Perfection is the child of time.

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.