Child Quotes

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.
Carol Ann Duffy

Life, Mother, Wanted

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
Carol Ann Duffy

Away, Takes, Childhood

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.
Steven Cojocaru

Dreams, Best, Place

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
Danny Glover

Rights, Movement, Civil

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.
Raymond E. Feist

Love, Children, Passion

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.
Eva Herzigova

I was a single mother when my child was little.
Gloria Allred

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best interests of the child.
Gloria Allred

Best, Care, Someone

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.
Gloria Allred

Children, Single, Support

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
Owen Hart

Time, School, Parents

Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
Barbara Mikulski

Women, Care, Down

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

Money, Trying, Figure

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.
Reggie Watts

Art, Idea, Create

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.
Stellan Skarsgard

Good, Beautiful, After

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.
Meg Tilly

Movies, Wanted, Write

Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.
Mike Fitzpatrick

Problem, Growing, Mistake

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.
Lynn Johnston

Family, Mother, Father

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.
Lynn Johnston

Parents, Help, Proud

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
Stephen Chow

Football, Poor, Dream

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
Chaz Bono

Time, Felt, Feminine

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
Al Green

Success, Stupid, Before

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
Al Green

Everyone, Succeed, Fail

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.
Mary Wesley

Someone, Same, Else

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.
Phyllis Schlafly

Rule, However, Custody

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
John Webster

Sorrow, Sin, Held

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.
Emily Deschanel

Love, Science, Mind

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

Friends, Open, Wherever

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.
Michael Nutter

Life, Teacher, Father

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.
Richard Eyre

Self, Deal, Shy

Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
Richard Eyre

Parents, Long, Balance

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