Child Quotes

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.