A Child Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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'.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!'

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'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.

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.

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.

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'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.

Children think around corners.

Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- is health

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

Do not say, 'It is morning, ' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.

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.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

Lesson: Never underestimate a woman. Or a chef.

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.