Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. — Erma Bombeck
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are… — Erma Bombeck
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she… — Erma Bombeck
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. — Erma Bombeck
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. — James Agee
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly… — Edward de Bono
When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins. — Alain de Botton
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… — Nadia Boulanger
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain
Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child. — Brandon Boyd
Touch a scientist and you touch a child. — Ray Bradbury
My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed. — Jo Brand
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the… — Bill Brandt
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't. — Jeff Bridges
Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that. — Jeff Bridges
Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child. — Todd Bridges
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. — Susie Bright
I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s. — Sarah Brightman
People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their… — Eli Broad
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about… — Geraldine Brooks
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. — James Broughton
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it… — Alton Brown
My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on… — Chris Brown
My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to… — Dave Brubeck
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. — Pearl S. Buck

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