Child Quotes
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Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don’t matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it’s too late, it ain’t never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.
Bernice L. McFadden -
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.
Brennan Manning
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Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom.
Ezra Pound -
Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.
Mother Teresa -
If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.
Michael Jackson -
I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.
Catherynne M. Valente -
To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
Elizabeth Edwards
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Simone de Beauvoir -
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.
Eda LeShan -
The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
Bill Gates -
When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.
Nick Cassavetes -
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
Esther Meynell -
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.
Hector Hugh Munro
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Nobody wants to sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family.
Cindy McCain -
When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.
Raja Krishnamoorthi -
Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.
Margaret Mitchell -
The way a mother holds her child underlies “the ability to feel the body as the place where the psyche lives.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.
John Ruskin
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I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.
Corey Feldman -
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.
Beryl Markham -
As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.
John Lennon The Beatles -
If your child seems to click with another kid in the class, try to set up a time for you to meet at a park after school and get to know their parent. Seeing you be outgoing with the parents of other children will encourage your child to be open and active in their friendships, too!
Eva Amurri