Quotes About Child

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!

I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.

I really believe that a child's mental health is just as important as his or her physical health.

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

I'm an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.

I've been wanting to have a child since Dashiell was 1, but I was working too much, and there was a lot going on in my relationship.

In the immediate aftermath of the civil-rights movement, Democrats marketed liberalism to us as fashionable, sophisticated and liberating. Today it needs a surgeon general's warning: hazardous to your family and the values you were taught as a child.

There's this unspoken assumption when you're the child of a doctor that nothing is ever wrong with you - or at least nothing horrendous enough to warrant your father leaving work.

I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.

The child resembled Pippi Longstocking, the heroine of those strange Dutch children's books.

No, Miss,' he said. 'I told you. It's not her name. It's her number. It's mummy's special number.

I can't promise my child a life without bias — we're all biased — but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

Imitation and repetition are the keys to discipline with the young child, not reasoning or punishment.

You can nourish the development of your child's imagination by providing nourishing images from stories the child hears and limiting images the child receives from television, computer games, videos, and movies.

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment.

Gazing upon the child, the presence in the adult's heart of an unfinished life, oscillating between birth and death, is clarified.

The Lone Ranger is a pagan child. If I ever have kids, I'm home-schooling 'em.

No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.

When you have a child, the happiness that it will give you cannot be matched by any number of zeroes on a cheque.

My mom is definitely crazy. She would totally be a stage mom if I was a child actor.

In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.