Top 1200 Your Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way.

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.

Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore.

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

Whenever you have an animal and bring another one into the house, it's a very traumatic event. It's a story as old as bringing home a second child from the hospital, when the first child kind of goes, 'Hey, aren't I enough?'

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your formative years, you oftentimes take a lot of who you're playing into your real life and kind of become that thing.

I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.

My child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

Usually all lullabies are featured on a mother and child. But in 'Kalimannu,' it is picturised on a mother-to-be who is singing to her unborn child. I found the entire concept so beautiful.

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.

Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.

Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Cooking ought to be, quite literally, child's play. And every child ought to have access to the game. Just don't tell them it's healthy.

I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.

Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.

The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.

When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.

I think if more women had been directing when I was a child, I probably would have gone for directing first. But, as a child, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

If you want to enter into a state of pure connection with your child, you can achieve this by setting aside any sense of superiority.

The Maria, what I look like in real life and how I am, I'm a super flower child. I wear all flower child '60s dresses.

Since I was a child, I've been playing children. When I was little, I was the kid that you'd hire to do the reading or workshop of your new material.

If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.

She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other kind of creativity. Her creative urge is fulfilled. But man is in trouble: he cannot give birth to a child, he cannot have the child in his womb. He has to find a substitute, otherwise he will always feel inferior to the woman. And deep down he does feel that he is inferior. Because of that feeling of inferiority man tries to create paintings, statues, dramas, he writes poetry, novels, explores the whole scientific world of creativity.

The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, homeschool.

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.

It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born.

When your child is looking up at you and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.