Child Quotes
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
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Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!
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I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
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It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
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My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
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I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.
