Quotes about Child-like

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away. Votes: 1

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them. Votes: 1

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life. Votes: 1

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents. Votes: 1

The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really goofy and really silly and crazy. If I get too serious, I start hitting a wall. Votes: 1

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. Votes: 1

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack. Votes: 1

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Votes: 1

I like Destiny's Child. Votes: 0

I played like a child. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child. Votes: 0

I'm like a child who belongs to nobody. Votes: 0

A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom. Votes: 0

I feel like I died as a child. Votes: 0

Killing a stag is like killing a child. Votes: 0

Be happy for no reason, like a child. Votes: 0

There is nothing like the love or a child. Votes: 0

conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ... Votes: 0

A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water. Votes: 0

I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old. Votes: 0

Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn't God's child... Votes: 0

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights. Votes: 0

I look like a child - and I love it! Votes: 0

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run. Votes: 0

I want to dress like a child as much as possible. Votes: 0

He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood. Votes: 0

If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology. Votes: 0

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. Votes: 0

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother. Votes: 0

The average American is just like the child in the family. Votes: 0

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child. Votes: 0

I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me. Votes: 0

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. Votes: 0

There is nothing like seeing the man you love with your child. Votes: 0

That's the authentic punk dance. It's like a child dizzy on lemonade. Votes: 0

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. Votes: 0

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity. Votes: 0

It takes maturity to be able to laugh like a child again. Votes: 0

Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible. Votes: 0

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework. Votes: 0

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood. Votes: 0

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child. Votes: 0

When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child. Votes: 0

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child, Votes: 0

Water is like a child, it always wants to be in motion. Votes: 0

As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact. Votes: 0

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child. Votes: 0

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Votes: 0

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child. Votes: 0

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt. Votes: 0

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs. Votes: 0

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy Votes: 0

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage. Votes: 0

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. Votes: 0

Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by Votes: 0

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child. Votes: 0

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child. Votes: 0

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible. Votes: 0

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child. Votes: 0

...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom. Votes: 0

I feel like the second child feels like they have to do everything faster. Votes: 0

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry. Votes: 0

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child. Votes: 0

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. Votes: 0

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Votes: 0

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live. Votes: 0

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. Votes: 0

April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets. Votes: 0

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride. Votes: 0

Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity. Votes: 0

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote. Votes: 0

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. Votes: 0

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child. Votes: 0

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark. Votes: 0

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole. Votes: 0

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival. Votes: 0

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another. Votes: 0

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress. Votes: 0

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child. Votes: 0

My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me Votes: 0

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps. Votes: 0

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. Votes: 0

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Votes: 0

And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child. Votes: 0

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do. Votes: 0

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child. Votes: 0

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth! Votes: 0

Like young fern shootsmy child's fingers curled.I did not expect,in the fifth month, frost. Votes: 0

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child. Votes: 0

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child. Votes: 0

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. Votes: 0

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. Votes: 0

Never lose the child like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us. Help others. Votes: 0

I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child. Votes: 0

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. Votes: 0

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once. Votes: 0

She looked like a mother protecting her child of course, we're talking a half-crazed, bloodthirsty mother. Votes: 0

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. Votes: 0

Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable. Votes: 0

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. Votes: 0

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child's hobby-horse and trumpet. Votes: 0

Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her. Votes: 0

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. Votes: 0

I like the authentic punk dance you did there. It's like a child dizzy off lemonade Votes: 0

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. Votes: 0

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement. Votes: 0

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. Votes: 0

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Votes: 0

I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child. Votes: 0

If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content. Votes: 0

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring. Votes: 0

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that. Votes: 0

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body. Votes: 0

I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult. Votes: 0

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child? Votes: 0

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity. Votes: 0

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. Votes: 0

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child. Votes: 0

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. Votes: 0

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. Votes: 0

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child. Votes: 0

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school. Votes: 0

The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child. Votes: 0

You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown. Demi Lovato Votes: 0

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. Votes: 0

Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one. Votes: 0

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child. Votes: 0

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. Votes: 0

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child. Votes: 0

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. Votes: 0

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children? Votes: 0

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child. Votes: 0

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. Votes: 0

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. Votes: 0

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life. Votes: 0

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose. Votes: 0

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. Votes: 0

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. Votes: 0

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business. Votes: 0

A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil. Votes: 0

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child. Votes: 0

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. Votes: 0

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do. Votes: 0

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child. Votes: 0

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. Votes: 0

Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus. Votes: 0

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures. Votes: 0

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation. Votes: 0

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child. Votes: 0

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. Votes: 0

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling. Votes: 0

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to. Votes: 0

I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child. Votes: 0

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young. Votes: 0

Some people never say the words ‘I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told. Votes: 0

That invisible dream in my pocket was his heart in my Locket and I still smile like Daddy's little child. Votes: 0

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is. Votes: 0

I feel like little kids should and do steal money. That is a major part of being a young child. Votes: 0

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. Votes: 0

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. Votes: 0

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. Votes: 0

Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might! Votes: 0

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. Votes: 0

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. Votes: 0

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. Votes: 0

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy. Votes: 0

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. Votes: 0

I like French fries," I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie. Votes: 0

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution. Votes: 0

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me. Votes: 0

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus. Votes: 0

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates. Votes: 0

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll. Votes: 0

I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that. Votes: 0

Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me. Votes: 0

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt. Votes: 0

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed. Votes: 0

Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle. Votes: 0

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild. Votes: 0

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child. Votes: 0

I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings.. Votes: 0

I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. Votes: 0

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. Votes: 0

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. Votes: 0

You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child. Votes: 0

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. Votes: 0

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion. Votes: 0

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself. Votes: 0

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child. Votes: 0

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick. Votes: 0

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. Votes: 0

A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he should act like a man Votes: 0

At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face. Votes: 0

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. Votes: 0

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. Votes: 0

I will carry you kicking and screaming like a child then spank you. We can do this my way or yours. Votes: 0

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror. Votes: 0

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life. Votes: 0

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. Votes: 0

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like? Votes: 0

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child. Votes: 0

Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you. Votes: 0

History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it. Votes: 0

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really. Votes: 0

An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS. Votes: 0

I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child. Votes: 0

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young. Votes: 0

It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him. Votes: 0

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter. Votes: 0

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field. Votes: 0

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble. Votes: 0

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football. Votes: 0

Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play. Votes: 0

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.] Votes: 0

Sure, I'd like a child of my own. I'd also like a laser pistol, that doesn't mean someone should give me one. Votes: 0

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture. Votes: 0

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. Votes: 0

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like. Votes: 0

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again. Votes: 0

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley. Votes: 0

I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Cleveland without the pretty bits. Votes: 0

As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that. Votes: 0

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. Votes: 0

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self. Votes: 0

Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet. Votes: 0

I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me. Votes: 0

When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins. Votes: 0

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action. Votes: 0

If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him. Votes: 0

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets. Votes: 0

I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear. Votes: 0

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child. Votes: 0

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they? Votes: 0

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are. Votes: 0

It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has. Votes: 0

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child. Votes: 0

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. Votes: 0

She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child. Votes: 0

Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe. Votes: 0

Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon. Votes: 0

Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more! Votes: 0

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing. Votes: 0

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. Votes: 0

Laughing like crazythe child goes back to the citygives birth to monsterscreates earthquakeshairy women run nakedold folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke. Votes: 0

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden. Votes: 0

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in. Votes: 0

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child... Votes: 0

Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-like level. Imagine adult focus for 7 yrs. Votes: 0

I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India. Votes: 0

Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines. Votes: 0

Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams. Votes: 0

There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. Votes: 0

If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children? Votes: 0

When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild. Votes: 0

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war. Votes: 0

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. Votes: 0

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. Votes: 0

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much. Votes: 0

Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that. Votes: 0

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. Votes: 0

I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal. Votes: 0

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. Votes: 0

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it. Votes: 0

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star! Votes: 0

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. Votes: 0

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size. Votes: 0

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test. Votes: 0

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there. Votes: 0

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. Votes: 0

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach. Votes: 0

You're not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted. Votes: 0

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber. Votes: 0

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan. Votes: 0

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it. Votes: 0

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman. Votes: 0

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!' Votes: 0

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from. Votes: 0

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. Votes: 0

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me. Votes: 0

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty. Votes: 0

Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child,so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness,hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children. Votes: 0

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through. Votes: 0

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. Votes: 0

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special. Votes: 0

Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears. Votes: 0

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray. Votes: 0

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate. Votes: 0

I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child. Votes: 0

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live. Votes: 0

A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles. Votes: 0

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive Votes: 0

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again. Votes: 0

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment. Votes: 0

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them Votes: 0

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours. Votes: 0

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up. Votes: 0

I am learning continuously and my enthusiasm in fighting is always high. Like a child that is always learning and always want to achieve my goal. Votes: 0

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. Votes: 0

Ive been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies. Votes: 0

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child. Votes: 0

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide. Votes: 0

I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family. Votes: 0

I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies. Votes: 0

Well you know when people around you treat you like a child and pay no attention to the things you say you have to do something. Votes: 0

I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure. Votes: 0

Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures. Votes: 0

I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine! Votes: 0

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did. Votes: 0

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..." Votes: 0

Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time. Votes: 0

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today. Votes: 0

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. Votes: 0

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table. Votes: 0

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished. Votes: 0

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child. Votes: 0

After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning. Votes: 0

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time. Votes: 0

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves. Votes: 0

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. Votes: 0

I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others. Votes: 0

That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better. Votes: 0

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will. Votes: 0

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices. Votes: 0

Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree. Votes: 0

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe. Votes: 0

There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child. Votes: 0

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. Votes: 0

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration. Votes: 0

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you. Votes: 0

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world. Votes: 0

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child. Votes: 0

Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls. Votes: 0

I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child. Votes: 0

If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine. Votes: 0

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. Votes: 0

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness— Votes: 0

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. Votes: 0

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves. Votes: 0

Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem. Votes: 0

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it. Votes: 0

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger. Votes: 0

I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them. Votes: 0

I have a dog at home, and that's my baby. She's my girl, and I would do absolutely anything for her. She's like a child to me. Votes: 0

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them. Votes: 0

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world. Votes: 0

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. Votes: 0

Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away. Votes: 0

I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room. Votes: 0

One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child. Votes: 0

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. Votes: 0

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are. Votes: 0

Christians are famous for telling people to be child-like and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending list of questions) is often discouraged. Votes: 0

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about. Votes: 0

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings. Votes: 0

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it. Votes: 0

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me. Votes: 0

Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself. Votes: 0

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit. Votes: 0

Child: Why on this night do we eat Hot Fudge Sundaes? Adult: To remind us that being Jewish is like having your birthday every day!! Plus they're delicious! Votes: 0

Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away Votes: 0

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith Votes: 0

The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon. Votes: 0

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world. Votes: 0

We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.' Votes: 0

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she'd give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species. Votes: 0

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous. Votes: 0

Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them. Votes: 0

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. Votes: 0

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor. Votes: 0

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Votes: 0

What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love. Votes: 0

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching. Votes: 0

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child. Votes: 0

But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us. Votes: 0

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done. Votes: 0

For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way. Votes: 0

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky. Votes: 0

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. Votes: 0

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children. Votes: 0

It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others. Votes: 0

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner. Votes: 0

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos. Votes: 0

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before Votes: 0

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid. Votes: 0

I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks. Votes: 0

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured. Votes: 0

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child. Votes: 0

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife. Votes: 0

My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry. Votes: 0

A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier. Votes: 0

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love. Votes: 0

I didn't know I'd ever be able to love my second child like I love my first; she came out, and I was amazed I could love them both equally. Votes: 0

I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.' Votes: 0

Sometimes I like her calm, unwild, gentle as a sleeping child,and wonder as she lies, a fur ring,curled upon my lap, unstirring -- is it me or Tibbles purring? Votes: 0

But we have reached a turning-point. We must make a decision: shall we remain a child-like people, giving little thought to our Future, till someday we find that we have none? Votes: 0

If trusting in Christ is the only way to be saved one has to wonder about infants, small children, and those who are child-like who are incapable of exercising faith in Christ. Votes: 0

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. Votes: 0

This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy. Votes: 0