Top 1200 Problem Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

I found that cardiovascular exercise boosts my mental performance. If I have a problem to solve, like an engineering one, and I get on a treadmill, then time disappears; all I know is an hour later I'm all sweaty and the problem has been solved.

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

Usually all lullabies are featured on a mother and child. But in 'Kalimannu,' it is picturised on a mother-to-be who is singing to her unborn child. I found the entire concept so beautiful.

In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

Cooking ought to be, quite literally, child's play. And every child ought to have access to the game. Just don't tell them it's healthy.

A problem shared is a problem halved, but as with so many problems affecting women - periods, menopause, post-natal depression - we often feel embarrassed, as if we're moaning or just plain wrong to air them.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born.

It is, of course, true that I have given priority to the settling of the problem of security and the problem of Irian Barat, although I knew that in order to do these things, almost three-quarters of our national product had to be spent.

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.

For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with this crucial ambiguity about our role - that we are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child.

She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other kind of creativity. Her creative urge is fulfilled. But man is in trouble: he cannot give birth to a child, he cannot have the child in his womb. He has to find a substitute, otherwise he will always feel inferior to the woman. And deep down he does feel that he is inferior. Because of that feeling of inferiority man tries to create paintings, statues, dramas, he writes poetry, novels, explores the whole scientific world of creativity.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.

Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore.

The problem of racial difference in America - and in modern life more broadly - is always presented as an economic, political, biological or cultural problem. But I want to say that it's at least as much a philosophical and imaginative disaster.

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.

I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.

I don't think we would be specifically remaking "Child's Play 2" and "Child's Play 3". I imagine we'd be dreaming up whole new stories.

The Maria, what I look like in real life and how I am, I'm a super flower child. I wear all flower child '60s dresses.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

I cry when I don't get food on time. I am not cranky but have the heart of a child. I cry and laugh at most times. I have the sensitivity of a child.

I think if more women had been directing when I was a child, I probably would have gone for directing first. But, as a child, all I wanted to do was make movies.