Child Quotes

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.