A Child Quotes

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.

No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.