Child Quotes

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process.

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.