Child Quotes

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.