A Child Quotes

We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ's amazing journey came to be.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies.

You are more than human. You are a child of God.

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.

I'll just carry on being a dated flower child.

My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

Parental love is unconditional, and so is God's love. No matter what a child of God has done against Him, or feels he or she has done that cannot be forgiven, God still loves that wondering soul.

What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.