Child Quotes
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I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child.
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But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.
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I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.
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I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.
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The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.
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Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
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If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.
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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
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Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
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Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.
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When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no-one will ever love you as much as a small child.
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Success isn't ideal for every child. If we think a child would do better in a different school, whether it's a specialized program or just a school with a different approach, we'll tell a parent that, as we should.
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When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
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And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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I won Wimbledon when I was 19 and again after I had a child.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
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There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.
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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
