Child Quotes

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

I was a very wanting child.

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.