Child Quotes
-
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech.
-
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
-
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
-
As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.
-
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
-
I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
-
The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
-
I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
-
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
-
I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
-
It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.
-
The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
-
You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.
-
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
-
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
-
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.
-
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
-
Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
-
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.
-
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
-
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
