Top 1200 Wild Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

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 winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.

For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?

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

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.

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.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it's also about whomever you're parenting your child with. So there is a kind of 'awareness' involved for everybody. It's all about the way you interact with your child and participate in your child's 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.

It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and so were her daughter and granddaughter after her, and their place in the world was everywhere and nowhere, like gypsies on wing. No home had they but their caravans and campfires, and no family but the one they'd cobbled together of crows, creatures and kindred souls they'd met on their endless journey round and round the world.

Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty.

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it’s only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body’s a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It’s wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?

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?

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

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.

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.

There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.

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

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

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

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.

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—

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

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.

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.

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

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

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

In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.

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

When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!

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.

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

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

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.

By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud chapter of British history to an undignified end. In future the government will measure child poverty not by looking at whether they have any money, but by looking at their so-called 'life chances.'

No child should be expelled from preschool. And so we are calling on school districts around the country to end that practice. That benefits every child.

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 have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

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

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

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.

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

If they were siblings, 'Hairless Toys' would be the nice child, and 'Take Her Up to Monto' is more of a problem child.

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.

Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It's fine, it's your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child's or your friend's career.