Child Quotes

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

~ Kevin Mccarthy

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

~ Mary J. Blige

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

~ Martin O'malley

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

~ Ed Markey

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

~ John Grogan

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

~ Troy Polamalu

'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.

~ Gayle Lynds

My favorite part of any playdate comes later when I get to carry my exhausted and sleeping daughter to the car. Is there anything more trusting than a sleeping child completely and utterly leaning into your body?

~ Nia Vardalos

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

~ Jonathan Winters

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

~ Susan Faludi

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

~ Craig Venter

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

~ Mother Teresa

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

~ Thomas Paine

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

~ Nelson Mandela

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

~ Kailash Satyarthi

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

~ Peter Diamandis

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

~ Jake Shimabukuro

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

~ Naomie Harris

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

~ Bell Hooks

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

~ Michael Haneke

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

~ Gloria Steinem

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

~ Harmony Korine

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

~ Jennifer Saunders

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

~ John Henrik Clarke

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

~ Jeremy Sisto

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

~ Blair Underwood

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

~ Rita Rudner

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

~ Ann Cotton

Success is the child of audacity.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

~ Jack Canfield

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

~ Maurice Sendak

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

~ Bernie Siegel

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

~ Benjamin Spock

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

~ Alanis Morissette

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.

~ Laurence Yep