Child Quotes

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.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.