Top 1200 Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

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

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

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

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.

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

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.

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

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

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

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

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

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

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

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

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

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

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

The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests.

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

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

With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they're being failed.

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

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

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

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.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

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.

While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a wide-ranging neurological condition that affects different people in different ways. But I was reading an awful lot about it, to try and find ways of helping my child. I think a lot of fiction comes from this desire to confront unanswerable questions, and it's heartbreaking to see your child, a bright child, struggling so much with something that others are finding so easy. It's such an assault to the child's self-esteem and, as a mother, it's hard to watch.

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

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

I made a choice in life and got pregnant and had a child, and I want to put my child first.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

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

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

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

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

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

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

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

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

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.

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.

I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.

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

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

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

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

Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus' words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.