Child Quotes

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.
Joyce Carol Oates

Small, Strange, Put

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
Caroline Kennedy

God, Poetry, Sad

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
Anne Lamott

Life, Good, Live

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Friendship, Mother

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
Pete Townshend

Everything, Done, Two

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Doubt, Grow, Truly

The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Creative, Adult, Survived

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
Toni Morrison

Alone, Children, Two

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.
Sienna Miller

Life, Done, Become

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.
Judy Biggert

Education, Time, School

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
Benjamin Spock

Age, Mother, Two

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.
Katherine Heigl

Different, Play, Acting

No. I was an only child.
Robert Fulghum

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck

Before, Wanted, Born

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
Barbra Streisand

Matter, Mature, Remains

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
Rowan Atkinson

Funny, Age, Person

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.
Michael Bloomberg

School, Career, Goal

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson

Shame, Punishment, Beating

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Samuel Richardson

Happiness, Future, Early

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
Danica McKellar

Education, Family, Health

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Jackie Chan

Parents, Give, Same

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
Jennifer Jason Leigh

Change, Nature, Happy

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
William Gibson

Time, Nothing, Give

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.
Christina Ricci

Life, Bored, Knew

I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.
Christina Ricci

Someone, Hard, Reason

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
Jonathan Kozol

Music, Time, Children

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Anne Sullivan

Education, Special, Idiot

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
Vivienne Westwood

Good, Person, Big

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Girl, Parents

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
Alan Alda

Time, Mother, Live

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