A Child Quotes

She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.

Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child.

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'

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

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

I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'.

I'm a worldly angel, meaning I've adjusted to the ways of the world, even though I am a child of God. I wouldn't consider myself a Christian rapper, but if we were Christian rappers, we would kill.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

Does your uncle need anything? A coffee? A latte?” “He needs someone to bear his illegitimate child if you’re interested

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.