A Child Quotes

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.

If Mom is healthy, then her child is more likely to thrive, more likely to have a better quality of life and, ultimately, better able to provide for his or herself.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

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

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.

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.

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

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.