Child Quotes

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

~ Alan Garner

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

~ Etta James

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

~ Clare Balding

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

~ Jez Butterworth

I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

~ Bahman Ghobadi

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

~ Erik Erikson

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

~ James Herriot

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

~ Beyoncé Knowles

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

~ Sandra Lee

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

~ Billy Graham

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

~ Louis Pasteur

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

~ Sandra Cisneros

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

~ Alice Walker

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

~ Michael Gove

I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.

~ Mary

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

~ Stephen Spender

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

~ Desmond Tutu

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

~ Drew Barrymore

I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.

~ Misty Copeland

Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.

~ Jon Favreau

I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.

~ Tina Fey

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

~ William Shakespeare

I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

~ Michael Jai White

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.

~ Justin Timberlake

I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.

~ Howie Mandel

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.

~ Louis Xiv

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

~ Lewis Thomas

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

~ Salman Rushdie

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

~ Ben Affleck

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.

~ Maria Montessori

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.

~ Hilary Duff

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

~ Virginia Satir

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

~ Benjamin Spock

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

~ Nadia Boulanger

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

~ David Frost

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

~ Christy Turlington

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

~ Jourdan Dunn