Top 1200 Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.

Being pregnant and carrying a child is a blessing unique to womankind and a mother instinctively wants the best for her child.

The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

Nobody wants to sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in in peril.

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels - children and poets both tend to feel.

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

As a child, I was always playing some generic child.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.

No child is un-teachable. I will never give up on any kid. Every child can learn.

If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

You're supposed to put the child in their own room at six weeks. I don't think your child should ever sleep with you.

As long as I can keep one child off the streets or change one child's life for the better, then that's enough for me.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.