Top 1200 Child Development Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

The Maria, what I look like in real life and how I am, I'm a super flower child. I wear all flower child '60s dresses.

If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.

Cooking ought to be, quite literally, child's play. And every child ought to have access to the game. Just don't tell them it's healthy.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other kind of creativity. Her creative urge is fulfilled. But man is in trouble: he cannot give birth to a child, he cannot have the child in his womb. He has to find a substitute, otherwise he will always feel inferior to the woman. And deep down he does feel that he is inferior. Because of that feeling of inferiority man tries to create paintings, statues, dramas, he writes poetry, novels, explores the whole scientific world of creativity.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

Whenever you have an animal and bring another one into the house, it's a very traumatic event. It's a story as old as bringing home a second child from the hospital, when the first child kind of goes, 'Hey, aren't I enough?'

A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we are approaching the point when the only sustainable way forward is to want less. Indeed, the choice element may be removed from us and we will just have to have less. In the meantime we still have some choices about how to influence our future

In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

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.

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

I cry when I don't get food on time. I am not cranky but have the heart of a child. I cry and laugh at most times. I have the sensitivity of a child.

I don't think we would be specifically remaking "Child's Play 2" and "Child's Play 3". I imagine we'd be dreaming up whole new stories.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

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.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.

Usually all lullabies are featured on a mother and child. But in 'Kalimannu,' it is picturised on a mother-to-be who is singing to her unborn child. I found the entire concept so beautiful.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.

As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.

We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.

Every child is a gifted child.

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

I was a child actor but not a child star.

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born.

If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

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

It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

I think if more women had been directing when I was a child, I probably would have gone for directing first. But, as a child, all I wanted to do was make movies.

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

Every child is your child.

I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.