Top 1200 Wild Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

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.

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

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

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

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

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

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

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

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

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.

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.

Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,--others merely sensible, as the phrase is,--others prophetic.

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

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

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.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

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

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

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

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

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

We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed.

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

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

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

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

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

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

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

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

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.

RIHANNA IS TODAY'S MOST FASCINATING PERFORMER, A MYSTERIOUS AMALGAM OF AMIABLE WARMTH AND GLITTERING CHARISMA. WITH HER KEEN CREATIVE EYE FOR LINE AND COLOR, SHE HAS BECOME A FASHION ICON, LIKE AUDREY HEPBURN. YET SHE IS A TEMPESTUOUS WILD CHILD AND INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURESS, LIKE AVA GARDNER. MOST IMPORTANTLY, AS AN ARTIST IN THIS OVERMECHANIZED AGE, SHE BRAVELY DRAWS ON DEEP WELLS OF PURE EMOTION, ENDEARING HER TO MILLIONS OF FANS WORLDWIDE.

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

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.

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.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

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

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

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.

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

Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes.