Child Quotes - page 94

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. (Mark Haddon)
I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian. View quote
Marco Pierre White
When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to be alone, to have nobody to play the game with, can be painful. It's not exactly fear, it's a kind of pain. View quote
Martha Stout
People ask, "What could possibly cause a normal person to torture her own child?" Well, the answer is: Nothing could cause a normal person to torture their own child. The reason that we see that happening is that there are people who don't care, who don't love - even their own children. View quote
Martha Stout
The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem. View quote
Martin Seligman
I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own. View quote
Meg Cabot
My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking. (Meg Wolitzer)
I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past. View quote
Melanie Benjamin
Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered. View quote
Melanie Rawn
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world. View quote
Melinda Gates
As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child. View quote
Melinda Gates
A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country. View quote
Mary Astor
Don't be afraid, child, The stories are always there. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book. View quote
Mary Pope Osborne
For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience. View quote
Michelle Paver
I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus. (Michelle Williams)
As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.' View quote
Mohsin Hamid
Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and spiritual loveliness to the setting where He has placed you. You are a child of God. You are a part of the bride of Christ. You belong to the King--you are royalty. Dress and conduct yourself in a way that reflects your high and holy calling. God has called you out of this world's system--don't let the world press you into its mold. Don't think, dress, or act like the world; inwardly and outwardly, let others see the difference He makes in your life. View quote
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood. View quote
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy. View quote
Natalie Dormer