Top 1200 Sleeping Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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.

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.

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

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

Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

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

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.

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

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

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

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

A great foster parent can end the cycle of abuse and neglect, and impact not just the foster child's life, but also that child's future children's lives, the lives of people who would otherwise be victims of a lost foster child's crimes, and help end human trafficking and homelessness.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

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

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

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

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

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

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

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.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

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

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

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

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