Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I sort of knew I was a bit of a drama queen. I always threw tantrums, so I knew I wasn't a normal child.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

I'm so thankful that there are people willing to do that - to actually carry a child nine months for someone.

One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Growing up and seeing Shawn Johnson, for her to call me on the phone, I think my inner child was freaking out!

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

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