Child Quotes
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And that’s how you begin to win over a child. People who share a secret share a heart.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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If it were possible to escape from lonely experiences for a moment and stand back from the tree one would see the myriad bright worlds sparkling upon it. But only the greatest could do that. For all but the greatest their own experience was a prison house until the ending of the days. But one could know how bright was the light that carried all souls back to the light when for a moment one entered the world of a child.
Elizabeth Goudge -
I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.
Corey Feldman -
If I had a child, and I accidentally walked in on him seeing something, I'd rather he'd be seeing two people making love, than two people killing each other. USA in such a violent country, that I'd rather support sex!
Eva Mendes -
My mother said I was always an intense child, a very sensitive child. So that probably helped the emotions to be very present. I was just a big thinker. I would evaluate and analyze and feel and cry and discuss and be angry. All of those emotions were very surface for me.
Nicole Kidman -
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.
Eda LeShan -
She was suggesting that I separate also from my third child. She seemed to be saying: Imma would be better off and so would you. I replied: If Imma leaves me, too, my life will no longer have meaning. But she smiled: Where is it written that lives should have meaning?
Elena Ferrante
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
Elizabeth Edwards -
A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
Eda LeShan -
I enjoyed meeting Emma Watson. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.
Ethan Hawke -
If your child seems to click with another kid in the class, try to set up a time for you to meet at a park after school and get to know their parent. Seeing you be outgoing with the parents of other children will encourage your child to be open and active in their friendships, too!
Eva Amurri -
Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom.
Ezra Pound -
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.
Jimmy Carter
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From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.
Harshvardhan Rane -
Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
You're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child.
Elizabeth Noble -
One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.
Eric Maisel -
People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
Elizabeth Edwards -
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.
Bel Kaufman
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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.
Bess Streeter Aldrich -
...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.
Jostein Gaarder -
Being a child was not fun for me.
Alex Witchel -
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