Child Quotes
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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If a woman is old enough to push a ten-pound child through her birth canal, she can hear words like ‘penis’ and ‘cervix.’ These are medical terms, Miss Charingford, not obscenities.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
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Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.
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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.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.
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If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
