I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was there. Sometimesit looked like me. At other times, I could see someone similar...

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to...

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, ‘Stop being rude,’ ‘Stop shouting,’ ‘Stop jumping around on the furniture.’ But ‘Stop showing off’? That’s awful.

The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.

After all I’ve done for you’ has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called ‘Silver Snaffles’ that my mother gave away.

He’s a year shorter than me, but he’s a foot younger. I love him like the brother of an only child.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

I just couldn’t imagine hitting a child. But in ‘The Slap’ it’s an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself – would you step in if a child was out of control?

You are a child of mine,Born of my own design,And you bear the hard of life.No matter where you go,Oh, you will always know,That you’ve been made free in Christ,And you are a child of...

The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn’t make them love you, instead, they’ll see you as a little child, trying...

I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.

If you have a child, you’re improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse.

Childhood is either absurdly superficial or profoundly shitty. There’s no in-between. Anyone who reminisces about their happy childhood is delusional.

No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child

Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they...

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I don’t really see myself as a socialite or as a ‘child of someone.’ I’d rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn’t heartless. She was only aware of things...

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.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

how many times have I told you…

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn’t go much beyond that. We had been fighting...

Control your temper, or it will control you. Sometimes even remotely, like a toy car. Christmas is coming up, and for only $44.44 I’ll sell you a gift that would be perfect for the child...

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose...

I realized that I’m a child.”William looked point-blank at her chest. “No.

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.

Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don’t be the man of...

God’s greatest blessing; gift of children.

I think I must be bleeding. I think, if I’m thinking, I must be alive. I think, my arms must be here somewhere, I can feel them under the concrete. I think, what am I...

Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children’s futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares...

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship – that of parent and child – begins entirely with a coincidence. The child is produced by whatever serendipity brought its parents together,...

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I...

I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.

As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a...