Top 1200 Youngest Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

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.

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

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.

My first break wasn't professional - I was in 'The Sound of Music' when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest one, because that was what kind of took off for me in terms of loving acting.

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

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

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

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

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

When I came out of school, my mum was one of the youngest mums waiting at the gate. She was the cool mum on the block.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

'Linger' was the first song I wrote after joining the Cranberries. I was 18, and the youngest member of the band was 16 at the time. We never imagined it'd be such a big hit.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't know where I got my voice, but ours was always a musical house.

I am the youngest of three brothers so was constantly trying to upstage them all the time growing up, so that's why being a WWE Diva is so fitting for me.

My sisters started to cook at nine and, being one of the youngest, I wanted in on it, too, so I began at six on potato-peeling duty as french fries were my thing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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