Child Quotes

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

My inner child is not wounded.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.