Child Quotes

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.
Jane Fonda

Life, Between, Rest

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.
Brandy Norwood

Good, Mom, Cool

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
Anne Lamott

Love, Busy, Everyone

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.
Henry Louis Gates

Great, Leader, American

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan

Change, Happiness, Art

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Education, Before, Born

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
Joan Jett

Life, Parents, Young

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
Emma Thompson

Time, Truth, Happy

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
Arthur Miller

Love, After, Cannot

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller

Love, After, Stand

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
Danica McKellar

Music, Time, Good

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.
Maurice Strong

Point, Trouble, Might

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
Vivienne Westwood

Care, Remember, Suffering

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
Maurice Sendak

Trust, Time, Hard

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.
Tim Tebow

God, Mom, Heart

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
Julia Roberts

Why, Choose, Crush

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
Shirley MacLaine

Experience, Knowledge, Eyes

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
Christopher Lasch

Same, Place, Makes

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
Maria Sharapova

Life, Parents, Living

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
Patti Smith

Wonderful, Wanted, Since

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
Denzel Washington

Mother, Thought, Light

I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.
Kristen Stewart

Two, Young, Kids

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.
Nicole Kidman

Love, Good, Important

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
Nicole Kidman

Place, Loss, Terrifying

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
Nicole Kidman

Strong, Desire, Loss

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
Maynard James Keenan

Working, Problem, Hear

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson

Children, Others, Cry

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

Happy, Through, Parent

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
Elizabeth Edwards

Life, After, Place

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

Great, Find, Blessing

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