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Child Quotes

Miami is not optimal for raising a child.

– Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I’ve idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

– Josh Gad

Even the most high-maintenance boss isn’t going to sit and watch you the whole time, making sure you’re paying attention to them, whereas with a child, it’s like, ‘Wait, what? You’re not watching me right now? Really? Then I’m going to go spill this milk.’ Even bosses from hell don’t behave like that!

– Ivanka Trump

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

– Joan Didion

As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the ‘sick one.’ Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don’t know; but it is possible.

– Jacob Epstein

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.

– Joanna Lumley

I’ve been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don’t particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they’ve had whatever real innocence that’s in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It’s no good.

– Jeff Nichols

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

– Jason Bateman

How strange when an illusion dies. It’s as though you’ve lost a child.

– Judy Garland

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

– Jean-Michel Basquiat

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don’t do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it’s very different to have the responsibility of a child.

– Joan Didion

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I’m feeling depressed.

– Jo Brand

I’m an only child so am happy with my own company and I don’t really get lonely.

– Iain Banks

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

– James Earl Jones

On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began.

– Jane Leavy

What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what happened to me and my town. My family was killed, all of my family, so I had nothing.

– Ishmael Beah

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you’ll face as a parent, and that’s what helps you through.

– Hilary Duff

A talented child will have a schedule that is horrendous. You get up and practice, go to school, practice some more, eat dinner, and then you have homework.

– Itzhak Perlman

I first read ‘Tom Sawyer’ when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

– Jeff Nichols

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

– James M. Barrie

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

– James A. Baldwin

Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things being equal, any child of any race should be placed with any qualified parents without restriction or special conditions.

– John Ridley

I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette’s syndrome.

– Johnny Depp

There’s no one right way to parent, and there’s no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

– Jessica Valenti

When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn’t until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

– John le Carre

I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I’ve learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

– Ines de La Fressange

I’ve been called ‘paranoid,’ ‘schizophrenic,’ ‘the wild child of Silicon Valley.’

– John McAfee

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

– Jackie Chan

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10.

– Jon Katz

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

– Ian Mcewan

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