Child Quotes
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
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It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
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The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
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I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.
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When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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When I was a child, I wanted to be important.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
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I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.
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With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
