Quotes of: Child Keyword

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

Gwendoline Christie

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

Cassandra Clare

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

Claire Danes

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

Christian Louboutin

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Cesare Pavese

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

Christina Perri

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

Helen Oyeyemi

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

Hans Rosling

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

Henry Rollins

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

Itzhak Perlman

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

Irwin Redlener

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

Jules Asner

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

J.M. Barrie

The secret of a happy life is to live a life with child-like simplicity, appreciate nature’s beauty, and admire honesty.

Debasish Mridha

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Somewhere in the back of every child's conscious, lies the teaching of Spiritual Guidance, when it has been taught.

Ellen J. Barrier

Occasional soreness upon my heart. I am sure it is the past that clings like a needy child.

Evelyn Leilou Colon

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

Elizabeth Hurley

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

Eric Hoffer

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Eric Hoffer