Top 1200 Eldest Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

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.

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.

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

By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud chapter of British history to an undignified end. In future the government will measure child poverty not by looking at whether they have any money, but by looking at their so-called 'life chances.'

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

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

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—

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it's also about whomever you're parenting your child with. So there is a kind of 'awareness' involved for everybody. It's all about the way you interact with your child and participate in your child's life.

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

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.

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It's fine, it's your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child's or your friend's career.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.

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.

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

There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.

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

Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?

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

I'm the youngest of three children and grew up in Ealing, west London. My eldest sister, Nutun, is nine years older than me, and my middle sister, Rupa, is three years older.

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.

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.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.

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

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.

Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank

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.

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