Child Quotes

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

It takes three to make a child.

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Success is the child of audacity.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

I don't think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it's one of those jobs that is far more overwhelming than you could ever expect and far more satisfying than you can ever expect.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

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.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

I was a disruptive child.

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

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.

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

I'm married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.