Child Quotes
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I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.
Hannah John-Kamen
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To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
Steve Toltz
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There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.
Alma Powell
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I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
Mike Lookinland
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Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.
Gautama Buddha
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Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.
Alma Powell
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In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
George Eliot
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
Uzodinma Iweala
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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
Nicole Kidman
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Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
Michael Jackson
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Unless the home combines interest and freedom, together with teaching, certain children become violent rebels, and, seeking freedom and interest outside of the home, find themselves in a conflict, both with their home teaching and the home teachers, that shakes the unity and the happiness of parent and child.
Abraham Myerson
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When you find the one thing in your life you believe in above anything else, you owe it to yourself to stand by it—it will never come again, child. And if you believe in it unwaveringly, the world has no other choice but to see it as you do, eventually. For who knows it better than you? Don’t be afraid to take a difficult stand, darling. Find the one thing that matters—everything else will resolve itself.
Elizabeth Haydon
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
Hector Hugh Munro
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How do you protect a child from heartbreak? All I know is the egg wants to be held all the time, and perhaps if I hold her all the time she will know that she is loved in such a fundamental and profound way that when her heart is broken as an adult, she will not fall apart, will know that she is still loved and lovable.
Camilla Gibb
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
Cesare Pavese
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When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
Nora Ephron
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Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.
Mother Teresa
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I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child.
Mirai Nagasu
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How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
Jules Michelet
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I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.
Evan Rachel Wood
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.
Elizabeth Grimston
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No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.
Tony Dorsett
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And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
Mother Teresa