Child Quotes

When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.

Naveen Jain
- Parents
- Young
- Passionate
As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

Yves Rossy
- Good
- Mother
- Child

It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.

Forest Whitaker
- World
- Power
- Man
I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.

Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
- Rock
- Child
- Grew Up
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

Aristotle
- Nature
- Purpose
- Animal
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

Carl Andre
- Art
- I Think
- Sculptures
I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

Malcolm McDowell
- Country
- Black
- Dark
I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.

Apolo Ohno
- School
- Energy
- Dad