#Child

"Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child."

"After soul searching, I found myself. Then I found myself giving of myself to a charity that finds missing children. It's great to be found."

"He was an introverted kid, so I didn’t send him to his room as punishment. No, I took him to a party."

"You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it's the most intense it can ever be.' Then you have a child, and it's like - it's huge!"

"I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child."

"I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books."

"Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making."

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."

"And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered."

"I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope."

"There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about."

"Peanut butter and jelly is like the older, more serious brother to egg salad sandwich. I’m an only child, so I eat both with incredible sadness."

"No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read."

"A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality."

"The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing."

"He was just a kid. He didn’t care. He was like, “I’m getting in my mom’s van and I’m going home.” I was just a kid, too. But I cared. With him gone, who was I going to play Plato and Socrates with?"

"As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with."

"I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating."

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

"Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."