Top 505 Child Quotes

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.

Perfection is the child of time.

There is an old story that says that Julia Child dropped a chicken on the floor when she was filming ‘The French Chef.’ And then – that, in fact, is not true. She just, you know, dropped some potatoes she was trying to flip in a pan.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

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

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode.

Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

I was extreme… from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band – I did it all, and all at the same time.

When you grow up poor, you dream of just having a hom, and a bed that’s clean – that’s a sanctuary. Having a really great husband, a child who’s healthy and happy and brings me joy – all of that has been my dream.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

I learnt since I was a child growing up in a small village in the Czech Republic that I had to be like that to compete, to be the best and then to compete against the best. There has not been a second, a minute, an hour, a day that I have missed because I always wanted to improve.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I remember when I was a child… walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.

I don’t want to be a poster child for cancer.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Like every Brazilian child, I always wanted to be a footballer.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Every woman who chooses – joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire – not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth irrespective of the repercussions.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him.

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

Having a child with someone, you’re always going to be respectful of that. But the song ‘I Bet’ was honestly inspired by my life experiences – I can’t just say it’s from one experience.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

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.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult.

I’m an only child, and I’m very, very close with my parents, who actually live in Australia.

When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn’t really know it.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

As a child, I liked to play different type of sport, and I grew up to be an ardent sports fan. I have been watching all sports tournament religiously, especially badminton.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he’d been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child – one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

It’s true that no child is born knowing there’s an evil thing. You learn what is ugly.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you’re constantly putting yourself in an environment where you’re checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don’t really have a day off.

I’m God’s chosen child. I don’t worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I’ve always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.

To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.

You know when you’re a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

The era we live in we see child are more advanced then us. And that is why they need knowledge even on sex before they involve themselves in crime because of curiosity to know about sex.

I was a monkey child. I was like a clown.

My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.