Child Quotes
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I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
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Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.
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I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
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Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
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“Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!
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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
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If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.
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They have truly dedicated their entire lives to making a positive difference in the lives of each child at Nazareth.
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Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
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If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.
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Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
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For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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John Coltrane was probably my deepest influence, along with Jimi Hendrix, Elvin Jones, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, Ravi Shankar, Art Tatum, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy, Oscar Peterson, John Lewis, Bill Evans, Yehudi Menuhin, McCoy Tyner, THE BEATLES, Jimmy Smith, Keith Jarret, Glenn Gould, Aldo Ciccolini, Georgy Cziffra, Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, with whom I worked as a child.
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Mrs. Goldenthal's twin boys, Alex and Erno, were our age, and I discovered that they had been selected at Auschwitz for Mengele's experiments like us. Mrs. Goldenthan had stayed with them, and I found out later that she had hidden a younger child, Margarita, underneath her long skirt. She had come into the camp with the child hidden in her dress and during her entire stay there, even in the Nazi barracks where she had kept Margarita under the mattress during inspections, she and the other women had helped conceal the child.
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Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.
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When you go to heaven you can be what you like and I intend to be a child.
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Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
