A Child Quotes
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.
Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.
Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.
Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.
Everything that happens to a child of God, His father filtered and He intends to use it for the good and even when Satan and others mean it for bad because God is sovereignly in control.
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.
Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.
I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.
However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.
If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.
Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.
I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.
