A Child Quotes

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

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.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Perfection is the child of time.

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

My inner child is not wounded.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.

I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.

Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black

As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.

An only child is never twelve.

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.