The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
~ Iman
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
~ Yayoi Kusama
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
~ Anthony Foxx
I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.
~ Jennifer Damiano
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
~ Chantal Kreviazuk
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
~ James Broughton
People don't understand being a child star is very hard because first off, to be a child star, you have to be very unique. These kids are talented to be able to do it at such a young age. At the same time, you go through the pressures of bullying and a lot of people not understanding.
~ Romeo Miller
A man growing old becomes a child again.
~ Sophocles
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
~ James Joyce
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
~ P. L. Travers
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
~ Rowan Atkinson
I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.
~ Stephen Hunter
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.
~ Janet Jackson
I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.
~ Chris Meledandri
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
~ Ma Jian
I think it is absolutely crazy in this day and age that I have to go through a trial and error method to see if my child is allergic to an antibiotic or peanuts. I should just know.
~ Anne Wojcicki
A grownup is a child with layers on.
~ Woody Harrelson
I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.
~ Jessye Norman
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.
~ Russell Peters
A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.
~ Alessandro Nivola
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
~ Anna Pavlova
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
~ Maria Montessori
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
~ Nicki Minaj
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
~ Maurice Sendak
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
~ Charles Morgan
The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
~ Seal
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
~ Guy Laliberte
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
~ Samuel Richardson
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
~ J. B. Priestley
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.
~ Samantha Morton
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
~ Judy Blume
Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.
~ Cat Cora
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
~ Sigmund Freud
The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
~ Andrea Dworkin
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
~ Buddy Hackett
