Child Quotes

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

~ Bruce Barton

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

~ Victoria Beckham

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

~ Mary Pickford

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

~ Ashley Jensen

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

~ Matthew Macfadyen

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

~ Franco Nero

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

~ Roddy Mcdowall

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

~ Kailash Satyarthi

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.

~ Ellen G. White

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

~ Amity Shlaes

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

~ Donald Wuerl

I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

~ Christian Louboutin

It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.

~ Anouska Hempel

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

~ Enid Bagnold

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

~ Dennis Prager

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

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

~ Oriana Fallaci

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

~ Arabella Weir

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

~ Angelina Jolie

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

~ Paul Simon

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

~ Ellen Degeneres

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

~ Groucho Marx

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

~ Dave Grohl

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

~ Selma Blair

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

~ Antony Gormley

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

~ Sabrina Carpenter

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

~ Tim Curry

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

~ Daphne Guinness

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

~ John Henrik Clarke

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

~ Kevin Spacey

As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.

~ Jonathan Kozol

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

~ Michelle Phan

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

~ John Rhys-Davies

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

~ Jerome Isaac Friedman

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

~ Park Geun-Hye

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

~ Mortimer Adler

I grew up feeling 'less than.' I was the sad, shy child hiding in the hall closet beneath coats. I'd wait for my grandmother's voice to call, 'Jewell, Jewell.' I was lost, waiting to be found. I thought being found, I'd be happier, better. All the while, I read stories. Stories with both truth and lies.

~ Jewell Parker Rhodes

It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.

~ Nia Vardalos