Top 1200 Child Custody Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and challenges to tackle, the possibilities are endless. Music education should not be a privilege for a lucky few, it should be a part of every child's world of possiblity.

To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child.

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

I don't miss having a child because Saab is like a child at heart.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

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

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.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

If you're a child, and you're on Broadway, you automatically know every other child in a production.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.

Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

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.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

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

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a child; artificial (in vitro) fertilization, which is to make a child without making love; abortion, which is to unmake the child; and pornography, which is to unmake love: all these, to varying degrees, are incompatible with natural law.

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

A great foster parent can end the cycle of abuse and neglect, and impact not just the foster child's life, but also that child's future children's lives, the lives of people who would otherwise be victims of a lost foster child's crimes, and help end human trafficking and homelessness.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child's work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.