Child Quotes
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
Malorie Blackman
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
Vidya Balan
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
Sabrina Carpenter
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
Hallie Ephron
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
Randy Harrison
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When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.
John Lennon The Beatles
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
Patricia Heaton
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The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech.
Lev Vygotsky
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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.
Simone de Beauvoir
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
Zola Jesus
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
Valerie Bertinelli
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
Abigail Washburn
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
Orlando Bloom
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
Hannah Storm
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
Victor Ponta
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As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.
Asif Ali Zardari
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner