Child Quotes
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Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.
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Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
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I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.
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Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too.
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When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.
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No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.
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There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.
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Standing in the small space, Holly was overwhelmed by memories and a strange protective feeling for the child she'd been.
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I was pretty quiet as a child.
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No child is bad from the beginning, they only imitate their atmosphere.
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The more you try to push a child's unhappy feelings away, the more he becomes stuck in them. The more comfortable you can accept the bad feelings, the easier it is for kids to leg go of them.
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Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.
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Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.
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As a child you received messages from your family to keep your mouth shut and remain invisible. You also learned to become invisible in order to protect yourself. You no longer need to be invisible to survive. If people do not notice you, they may not abuse you, but they also will not love you or attend to your needs. Make yourself and your needs known.
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My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.
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Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.
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I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.
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There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
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...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.
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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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A grownup is a child with layers on.
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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
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The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
