Top 1200 Small Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.

If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine the station in life that that child will occupy as an adult.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn't a bad child; everything I did was for my own entertainment. But when I went into an exam, I did really well.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

The number of things that can happen to a child online are just as many as can happen to a child in the playground, only it's more immediate and they have the whole world at their finger tips.

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.

I never consider whether an actor is small or big. Working with small or big actors doesn't excite me.

If you grow up in a place, and you're small, even if the place is itself also small, it's huge to you. It's what's out there: it's the world outside of your door.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

When we decide to bring a child to this world, as a parent, it becomes a responsibility to build a good healthy body by inculcating some of the good habits in the child.

We believe that the real child-care experts are mom and dad. That's why we brought in the universal child care benefit way back in 2006.

We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of child neglect. If we could eliminate the vestiges of racism, if we could develop a more powerful agenda for child care, child development, and a more powerful education system, we could prevent a lot of the incapacities which in turn tend to generate structural unemployment.

We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.

I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.

If you are going to try and convince somebody to travel, do it with a small map - the distances look like nothing on a small map.

Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.

An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him.

I was born in a part of Tamil Nadu notorious for eliminating the girl child. I was the third daughter born to my parents and I have my mother to thank for deciding that I was not an unwanted child.

I'm a mom... and I'm learning this being a parent, sometimes your child can be such a reflection of who you are. And I have to figure out when it is my ego that dictates how I parent and when it is what I think is best for my child.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

I have grown up being a father. When my first son was born I was 17. I was a child bringing up a child. I was not capable of understanding what a dad was meant to be.

As a mom, I just can't imagine having a child who would feel discriminated against for any reason, and I would want my child in a safe environment.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

Beyonce did an incredible job of differentiating the sound of Destiny's Child in her songs. When you hear Destiny's Child, you know it based on the harmonies and the melodies.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

It's really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn't say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

I was a child actor but not a child star.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

If I ever have a child.. Insh'allah I will... I wish it's a girl. I want a girl child.

I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.