Child Quotes
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
Vanessa Paradis
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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
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
Laura Mennell
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Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.
Flannery O'Connor
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
Viggo Mortensen
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
Olivier Theyskens
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
Gail Carson Levine
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I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
Kamala Harris
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
Walter Dean Myers
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
C. Thomas Howell
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I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.
Dale Archer
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
Yul Vazquez
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
Nadia Giosia
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Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Heraclitus
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
Talulah Riley
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Vin Diesel
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
C. Everett Koop
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
Barbara Hale
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
Eberhard Arnold
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
Katee Sackhoff
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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
Victoria Woodhull
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Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
Samuel Freeman Miller