Child Quotes
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	One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.   
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	Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.   
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	There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.   
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	No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.   
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	I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.   
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	You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.   
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	When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.   
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	As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.   
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	Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.   
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	I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.   
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	When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.   
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	It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.   
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	That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.   
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	If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.   
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	I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.   
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	When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.   
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	When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.   
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	My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.   
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	Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.   
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	I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.   
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	There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.   
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	I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.   
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	Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.   
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	In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					