Top 1200 Wild Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

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

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

Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

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

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.

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

The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child's work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.

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

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

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

Haven't had your fill of interesting events?" "Never. They are the spice of life." She held up her half-finished hat. "How do you like it?" "It's nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say?" "Raxacori-Oh, never mind. It wouldn't mean a thing to you anyway. Safe travels to you and Saphira, Eragon. And remember to watch out for earwigs and wild hamsters. Ferocious things, wild hamsters."

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

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

I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

He was a wild one as a lad, and there's a look about him that says he could be again." Kathy sighed. "I've always had a soft spot for a wild heart in a man. Have you no sweetheart in the States then, Jude?" "No." She thought briefly of William. Had she ever considered her husband her sweetheart? "No one special." "If they're not special, what would the point be?

Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

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.

Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

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

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

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

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures- a stallion born wild- and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.

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

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

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.

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

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

The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.

Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and challenges to tackle, the possibilities are endless. Music education should not be a privilege for a lucky few, it should be a part of every child's world of possiblity.

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

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

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

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to.

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

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

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child.

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.

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

Atheists are like wild feral dogs wih no master. But Christians are like loving dogs with a giving and loving master. Domesticated dogs will love you always, but Feral wild dogs HAVE to be put down. they are a danger to us all.

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

Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I.

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