Top 1200 It Takes A Village To Raise A Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

I hail from a small village and whatever I have achieved is simply because of fate.

I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock.

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

It is not easy to participate in the 21 km. marathon. It takes a lot of energy, determination, and will power. It takes months to train to reach that mark with a proper diet chart.

Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

My husband and I believe that if you treat a child well and nurture his talent and physical ability, in a healthy environment, the child will succeed no matter what.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

I just want to raise a confident girl. I just want her to know that she doesn't need to be sending naked pictures and doing all that stuff - I'm definitely going to monitor everything. I want to raise her to know that she can go do whatever she wants in life and to be comfortable in her own skin, which I think also just comes with age and time.

The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.

My favourite hotel is the Hilton Hawaiian Village beach resort in Honolulu.

I live in a small village on the Norfolk coast, far from the Edinburgh festival.

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

I was born in Pizzoferrato, a little village of 1000, in the Abruzzi region of Italy.

As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour.

The reality is that most gay couples don't want to adopt a child. Those who do, though, are often prepared to devote themselves entirely to their adoptive child.

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

When you have a child, you have to have a hawk eye. You have to be with the child all the time.

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

I can't imagine raising a child with a goal of that child being a baseball player or a lawyer or whatever. Odds are, they'll be something else. In this world, there are a lot of opportunities.

The kind of influence you want is a much deeper influence. It's like empowerment. Things are like this, but what if they were like that? What happens if you turn everything inside out? It's something that not just artists do. I think scientists do that, too. There's a theory: What if we pour water on it? That's also what a child does. If a child came in now, the child would ignore us, go under the table, and make a house.

A child should be a child for as long as possible.

I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem in their community. I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig wells in Africa. I've seen young people pass laws, largely impacting their communities. They do have the power to change the world.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

Parental child abduction is child abuse.

If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can’t give a child any greater place from which to fly.

There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.

When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it.