Child Quotes

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.