Child Quotes

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

I was pretty quiet as a child.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

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.