Child Quotes
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During these last twelve years, with his left hand scarcely aware of what his right was up to, he had saved many souls. And he never saw a weeping child in the street without administering lollipops, or an old woman carrying a heavy burden but he did not turn aside to carry it for her. His huge kindness grew with the years, and his wealth, by giving him the means of gratifying it, had enlarged rather than shut up his heart. Though he had continued through all these years to detest the pursuit of money, yet its possession had done much for him.
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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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Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
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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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We heard that the Americans and the British encouraged mothers to work in the war industries, that they provided child care and paid high wages to a highly motivated, patriotic workforce. But the Führer rejected this idea. German women received extra rations, even medals of honor, for breeding profusely.
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No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.
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I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.
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You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.
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No child is un-teachable. I will never give up on any kid. Every child can learn.
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In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.
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That the child she bore him had lived only six months—and died under mysterious circumstances, circumstances that made him suspect she might have had something to do with it?
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How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
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A child regards your cheery smile as evidence that you are on his side, so he relaxes and is happier.
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The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
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Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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You're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child.
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...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
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All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.
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If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.
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The way a mother holds her child underlies “the ability to feel the body as the place where the psyche lives.
