Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my… — Julian Castro
The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with… — Rob Brezsny
Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during… — Unknown Author
Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to… — Unknown Author
My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course… — Eleanor of Aquitaine
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and… — Roald Dahl
It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to… — Gordon Ramsay
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived — Carl Jung
I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it… — Jack White
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. — Toni Morrison
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial… — Julie Burchill
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the… — Philip Wylie
... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse:… — Paula Sharp
I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child... — Amy Tan
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has. — Agatha Christie
I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child. — Boy George
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes. — Patsy Kensit
I started writing stories as a child. — Danielle Steel
My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time — Muhammad Ali
The most noble title any child can have is Third. — Demosthenes
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have — Carol Ann Duffy
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't… — Carol Ann Duffy
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing.… — Jacques Audiard
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or… — Philippe Halsman

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