Top 1200 It Takes A Village To Raise A Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

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.

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

To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thinking all over the world, that if they just sink enough money into a university, it will emerge in a few years as a first-class institution. But such rapid growth never happens. It takes time; it takes generations.

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.

Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

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

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.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

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

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

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

I'm just someone who grew up in a small village.

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?

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

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.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

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.

It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.

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

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

My best takes are my first two takes.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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

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

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.

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.

Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

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.

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'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.

As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of this?" And the actor never says, "Well, last week I was a murderer, and the week before that I was a child molester, and the week before that I was a lunatic. But now I'm a homosexual."

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.

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

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?

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

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—

Dione Lucas has been obscured by larger-than-life personalities like Julia Child, but she had it going on. She is like the horse that came in second place, whose name we can't remember. It takes more than just one horse to make a race.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

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

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

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.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated 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.

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