Top 1200 Neglected Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.

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.

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 think a lot of people of my generation have a certain guilt that, from the Sixties onwards, we started taking package holidays abroad and neglected our own country.

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

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 streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

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.

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.

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 most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

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

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

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

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.

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

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

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

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

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.

A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

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

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

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

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.

The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

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 sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family.

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

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 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.

I don?t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

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.

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

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

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

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.

After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never cause hardship or despair to a partner.

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.

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

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.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected.

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.

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—

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?

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

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.

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.

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?

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

It is for sure a big part of the coach's job to make sure the tennis does not get neglected.

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 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.

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.

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.