Child Quotes · Page 83

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down…

— Deborah Moggach

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love…

— Jessye Norman

To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.

— John Rhys-Davies

I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism…

— Tavis Smiley

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

To help the parents make the choice of which school to send their child to, I would insist that schools are graded…

— Mitt Romney

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a…

— Jen Kirkman

Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is…

— Anthony Foxx

I was a child actor but not a child star.

— Laurence Fishburne

“He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded…

— Leo Tolstoy

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the…

— Tom Stoppard

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

— Mike Myers

“Give a child too much freedom, and he’ll make you a child.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would…

— Philippa Gregory

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

— Ioan Gruffudd

“Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn…

— Dan Pearce

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have…

— Hal Sparks

As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my…

— Susan Shreve

I make no apologies for informing parents of the expanded universal child care benefit.

— Pierre Poilievre

Laughter was a part of the church services I attended as a child.

— Bil Keane

I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

— Eden Sher

A middle name is an opportunity to represent you, and what better name for an Anglo-American child than London?

— Ant Anstead

I was an only child until I was six.

— Sophie Dahl

I don't think a lot of women know how much their chances of having a child diminish as they age.

— Alexis Stewart

My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is…

— Kristy McNichol