Child Quotes

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old I look much younger. I look like a child.

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.