A Quote by Shirley Temple

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

Shirley Temple

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Shirley Temple
American - Actress
April 23, 1928 - February 10, 2014

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life.

John Prendergast

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

David Small

In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.

Jean Piaget

Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.

Ban Ki-moon

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.

Wil Wheaton

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'

Wil Wheaton

I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails.

Charlotte Church

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

So many of these former child actors and actresses seem to go off the rails.

Sarah Harding

When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated.