Top 1200 Parent Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and/or you've used all the parent controls to filter out explicit material, you're not okay. The filters are tissue paper and your kid without a phone is on a school bus or in a locker room or at a public park with phone-equipped kids every day. And they're like all kids in exploring - by whatever means available to them - exactly what their parents are treating as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about.

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

For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!

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—

No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.

I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?

Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

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.

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

It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.

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.

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

Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it's also about whomever you're parenting your child with. So there is a kind of 'awareness' involved for everybody. It's all about the way you interact with your child and participate in your child's life.

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

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.

The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.

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.

Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud chapter of British history to an undignified end. In future the government will measure child poverty not by looking at whether they have any money, but by looking at their so-called 'life chances.'

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.

No child should be expelled from preschool. And so we are calling on school districts around the country to end that practice. That benefits every 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.

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 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.

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

Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It's fine, it's your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child's or your friend's career.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

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?

When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.

Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty.

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

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

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.

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

If they were siblings, 'Hairless Toys' would be the nice child, and 'Take Her Up to Monto' is more of a problem child.

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.

In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.