A Child Quotes

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.

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.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

I think it is absolutely crazy in this day and age that I have to go through a trial and error method to see if my child is allergic to an antibiotic or peanuts. I should just know.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.

You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I'm so thankful that there are people willing to do that - to actually carry a child nine months for someone.

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.