Child Quotes

Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
Elle Macpherson

Great, Focus, Try

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.
John Engler

Education, School, Working

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
Dwayne Johnson

Home, Mom, Nothing

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.
Marian Wright Edelman

End, Poverty, Far

Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.
Catherine Bell

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!
Ron Taffel

Change, Time, Yourself

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.
John Hume

Family, History, Mother

These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.
John Hume

Important, Another, Stand

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
Nadia Giosia

Love, Eat, Adult

Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.
Nadia Giosia

Time, Good, Food

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman Abbott

Virtue, Eternal, Infinite

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
Ted Cruz

Liberty, Away, Blessing

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.
Emily Watson

Rather, Normal, Rebel

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.
Emily Watson

Loved, Read, Books

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.
Roy Barnes

Learn, Last, Needs

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.
Richard M. Daley

Government, Problem, Said

It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
Carolyn Murphy

Around, Easy, Once

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
Jean Piaget

Himself, Actions, Subject

There is nothing like seeing the man you love with your child.
Alyssa Milano

Love, Nothing, Seeing

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Him, Treat, Both

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.
Scott Thompson

Wish, Somebody, Happened

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
Martin Mull

Trouble, Ability

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.
Tia Mowry

Love, True, Until

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.
Suzanne Vega

Character, Sleep, Control

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.
Giuliana Rancic

Love, Amazing, Forward

It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.
Jason Isaacs

Someone, Girlfriend, Weird

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
Rebecca Harding Davis

Money, Devil, Taught

I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the fact that writing takes up a lot of space in your head. My ideal is to go back to when I was a child. My life is quieter than it used to be. More and more I don't really want to talk to people. I'd make a good nun, actually.
Kate Atkinson

Life, Age, Time

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Kate Atkinson

Good, Parents, Someone

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson

Reality, Around, Wanted

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