Child Quotes

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

I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.

~ Alison Goldfrapp

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!

~ Kara Walker

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

~ Michael Morpurgo

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

~ Laurence J. Peter

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

~ Ambrose Bierce

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

~ Bruno Mars

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

~ Abigail Breslin

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

~ Tim Tebow

Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.

~ Regina Brett

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.

~ Michael Dirda

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over, I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing. Yes, I grew up in Hollywood, but not in any rich neighborhood.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

~ Anthony Bourdain

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

~ Zooey Deschanel

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

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

~ Tori Amos

If Mom is healthy, then her child is more likely to thrive, more likely to have a better quality of life and, ultimately, better able to provide for his or herself.

~ Christy Turlington

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

~ Luke Evans

I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.

~ Michael Keaton

Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

~ Tracee Ellis Ross

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

~ Julia Stiles

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

~ Emma Stone

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

~ Jenny Mccarthy

Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.

~ Monica Johnson

Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.

~ Bob Beauprez

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

~ Denise Van Outen

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

~ Carl Karcher

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

~ Maria Montessori

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

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

~ Barack Obama

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

~ Amity Shlaes

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

~ Charles Handy

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

~ Ken Robinson

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

~ Bill Frist

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

~ William Temple

Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

~ Kailash Satyarthi

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

~ Mary Calderone

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

~ Earl Warren