Top 1200 Through The Eyes Of A Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

A child is born with no state of mind, Blind to the ways of mankind. God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too, Because only God knows what you'll go through.

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

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

President Trump has doubled the Child Tax Credit and added thousands back into the average Americans' paycheck through tax cuts and wage growth.

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

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

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

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

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

I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it’s dark and you can’t see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?

Whether it be through television, or through music, or through dance, or through film, whatever it is, as long as it's the right project that makes sense, then I'm all for it.

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.

Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

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

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

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.

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.

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.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

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

Brighid’s eyes flashed with a blue flame, and I wondered if she had learned to do that just so she could compete with the Morrigan’s red flashes. Maybe I should try to figure out how to make my eyes flash green so I could freak out the baristas at Starbucks. “No, you foolish mortal,” I’d say as my eyes glowed, “I ordered a nonfat latte.

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.

Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness.

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

I don't miss having a child because Saab is like a child at heart.

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

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

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

I've only seen pictures of New Zealand but everything I see is so pretty. Your eyes just... I don't think my eyes could take the beauty!

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

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

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.

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

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

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

If you're a child, and you're on Broadway, you automatically know every other child in a production.

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.

Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.

I sometimes think people hire me only for my eyes. If they could, they'd probably say, please leave your eyes on the set, we don't need the rest of you.