Child Quotes

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

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.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.