Child Quotes

• When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Heart
  • Child
  • Broken

• I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Love
  • Child
  • Eat

• 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.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• 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.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Small
  • Advice
  • Decisions

• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

• I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Always
  • Child
  • Bollywood

• The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Speech

• My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Mom
  • Child
  • Acting

• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Child
  • Insurance
  • Lie

• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Moving
  • Child
  • Forgotten

• Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Fat
  • Stone

• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Child

• I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Think
  • Passion
  • Child

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Never

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Ship
  • Pirate

• Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Child
  • Kingdom
  • Checkers

• We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Like
  • Child
  • Worst

• There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Know
  • Child
  • Moment

• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

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