Child Quotes

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.