Child Quotes
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My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.
Sonita Alizadeh
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My family really isn't so different from yours.
Zacharia Wahls
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
Victor Hugo
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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.
Gautama Buddha
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What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
Epictetus
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I must be the oldest living child soprano.
Kathryn Grayson
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I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
Josette Sheeran
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We have faith in the people who support us. If they really like us, they're going to want to be cool enough to buy our music, and realize that if they don't, the record label gets our first-born child.
Ben Moody Evanescence
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Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.
Amy N. Stewart
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We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Marianne Williamson
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Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded.
Alfred Binet
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A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
Margaret Wise Brown
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Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.
Sarah Hyland
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If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.
Cheri Huber
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
Judy Biggert
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I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.
Elvis Costello
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Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
Erica Jong
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I don't think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it's one of those jobs that is far more overwhelming than you could ever expect and far more satisfying than you can ever expect.
Lisa Edelstein
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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
Billy Joel