The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time. – Theresa May
My teacher told my mum, ‘I think William has dyspraxia,’ and Mum asked what that meant. She said, ‘Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.’ Mum was like, ‘Yeah, that’s my boy’. – Will Poulter
When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage. – Saffron Burrows
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art. – Sigmar Polke
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. – Samuel Richardson
I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous. – Sylvester Stallone
I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors’ hours. Even the concept of acting confused me. – Tatum O’Neal
Why shouldn’t we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? – William Gibson
As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You’re delighted by sound, you’re delighted by recognizing something. It’s like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It’s one fantastic game. – Yo-Yo Ma
With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level. – Sue Kelly
As our cities have developed, they’ve built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we’ve taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby. – Susan Oliver
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. – Stephen Fry
I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos. – Zooey Deschanel
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home. – William Temple
Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to little kids to playing a game, which is the controller. You can’t hand a basic video game controller to a child and expect them to understand what a left bumper is and to click in the right stick. – Tim Schafer
It’s very important to be in your child’s life and know what’s going on and be there with them. – Tracy Morgan
Brooke Shields has been a child star and has grown into an incredible actress. She is very accomplished, and I look up to her. She had a mother’s sense to her. – Sammi Hanratty
Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it. – Tyson Fury
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. – Ursula K. Le Guin
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny. – Wilhelm Wundt
I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn’t a bad child; everything I did was for my own entertainment. But when I went into an exam, I did really well. – Stormzy
As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages. – Shawn Amos
The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‘forever young at heart.’ – Wayne Dyer
I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It’s just a matter of how much. – Sharlto Copley
I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean. – Usher