Child Quotes
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Being a child was not fun for me.
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Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.
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I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.
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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
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We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.
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Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.
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And that’s how you begin to win over a child. People who share a secret share a heart.
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I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.
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When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.
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As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.
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The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
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The way a mother holds her child underlies “the ability to feel the body as the place where the psyche lives.
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Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
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I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.
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Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.
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If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.
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I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Part of Mother went with them. It is an acrobatic feat that only mothers can understand, this ability to be with every child.
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...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
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Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.
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And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
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But I was very much into sports when I was a child.
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Being a parent, it is heartening to see your child wake up every day at 5:45 in the morning to pursue his passion and then manage school as well.
