A Child Quotes
When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.
I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.
I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.
As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.
There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?
My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.
An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children
Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.
I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.
With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.
I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.
The ripping and tearing of an unborn child from his mother's womb through the hands of another, and we say, "That's fine; you have a constitutional right to do that."
To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.
Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.
I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."
We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.