Top 1200 Parent Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.

No child is un-teachable. I will never give up on any kid. Every child can learn.

The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus' words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.

I made a choice in life and got pregnant and had a child, and I want to put my child first.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they're being failed.

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.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

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

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?

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

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

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

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

We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

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 think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

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

The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than 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.

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

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

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

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

When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.

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.

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

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

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.

While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a wide-ranging neurological condition that affects different people in different ways. But I was reading an awful lot about it, to try and find ways of helping my child. I think a lot of fiction comes from this desire to confront unanswerable questions, and it's heartbreaking to see your child, a bright child, struggling so much with something that others are finding so easy. It's such an assault to the child's self-esteem and, as a mother, it's hard to watch.

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.