A Child Quotes

People ask, how can a person abuse a child? I ask, how can so many 'good' people not do anything about it?

You know what happens to me!

The Persian rug served as their country with people living injade green jungles and others living in an opal cream sky.They were so light. No one would ever be able to tell thatthey had lived there.

You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

Always find the funny.

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother Edward came along we both became comics, making each other laugh.

A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

You are the child of this universe. For you, she was waiting billions of years.

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.

I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.

I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

Human making is our mission.

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.

A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

I was quite lucky: although my dad worked a lot, whenever he was free, he would play sports with me and my brother, and I can't wait to do that with my child.

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.