Top 1200 Neglected Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child's work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

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

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.

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

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

If a building has been condemned or it's left to ruin, I get so upset. I feel something really deeply about it. I don't like to see anything neglected.

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

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

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

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

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

Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.

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

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.

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

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

I mean, the Globe is the most famous theater in the western world. The British have absolutely neglected it. It's an embarrassment to them that they haven't done anything about it.

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

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

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

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

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

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

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

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

O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.

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

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

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

In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.

Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and challenges to tackle, the possibilities are endless. Music education should not be a privilege for a lucky few, it should be a part of every child's world of possiblity.

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.

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

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

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

Darren Campbell has helped me out a lot with my sprinting mechanics. These are things I've always wanted to do, but neglected as I am already fast and strong.

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

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

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.

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

Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

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

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to.

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