Top 1200 Rearing A Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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.

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.

I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office.

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?

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.

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

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.

You see, the thing about us humans is we overcomplicate things. To eat, our food manufacturing processes work on a huge scale, clearing land, rearing livestock, killing it, packaging it. Go big, only to shrink it all back down to small enough to shove in our mouths.

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.

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

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.

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

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

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—

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up 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've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.