Child Quotes

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.