Child Quotes

Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but that's the goal.

~ Claire Scovell Lazebnik

Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.

~ Bernie Sanders

What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game.

~ John Burnside

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

~ Elizabeth Hurley

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

~ Jeff Bridges

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

~ Shania Twain

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

~ Lupita Nyong'o

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

~ Joe Rogan

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

~ Holly Madison

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

~ Elisabeth Moss

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

~ Marie Curie

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

~ Rudolf Otto

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

~ H. G. Wells

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

~ Charlotte Rampling

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

~ Andy Serkis

As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first 'Star Wars' movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.

~ Philip Reeve

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

~ Noam Chomsky

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

~ Ray Bradbury

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

~ Joe Manchin

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

~ Rosa Parks

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

~ James S. Coleman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

~ Gina Bellman

A child's first teacher is its mother.

~ Peng Liyuan

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

~ Elbert Hubbard

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

~ Will Poulter

As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'

~ Anne Wojcicki

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

~ Ruth Rendell

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

~ Jonathan Kozol

Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

~ Temple Grandin

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

~ John Irving

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

~ Anna Deavere Smith

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

~ Susanne Bier

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

~ Michael Nutter

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

~ Susan Cain

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

~ Anne Sullivan

When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.

~ Boman Irani

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

~ Karl G. Maeser

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

~ Gilbert Parker

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

~ Debbie Reynolds