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Quotes About Child

And even before your toddler is fully verbal, going over the day is also a wonderful idea, because it helps a child process her fears.
~ Tracy Hogg
I don't mean to attack you, child," Mr. Benedict said gently. "Let us strike a bargain. If you join the team, this shall be our understanding: You will follow my instructions, but only because you have agreed to do so, not because I told you to. No one is making you do anything. It is all of your own free will." "Fine," said Constance at last.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Every time that God gives us a child, it's His way of saying He trusts us-trusts us to offer love and to guide the child toward Him.
~ Tricia Goyer
A young Tibetan child touches his head to the floor before the altar and recites a prayer, and I am led to a moment of contentment. This too is part of our struggle as Tibetans: to remind our children and ourselves that we are Tibetan.
~ Unknown
For a man, the baby completes the marriage. For a woman the baby completes herself.
~ Unknown
It sounded as though you were having a battle there,' said Jack. 'No. It was only a tooth, a troublesome tooth: sure I have delivered many a child with less pains to all concerned.
~ Patrick O'Brian
she had this look of calmness, of concentration, the look, I think, of all women who for the first time are with child and find that the world around them has become relatively unimportant.
~ Paul Scott
One child was provoked to a stumbling dance at the feet of the fiddler, who was sawing his heart out with his eyes shut.
~ Paul Theroux
A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. It was because of that boy that I returned to Akbar.
~ Paulo Coelho
Un guerriero della luce presta attenzione agli occhi di un bambino. Perché quegli occhi sanno vedere il mondo senza amarezza.
~ Paulo Coelho
Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our soul, our eyes will grow bright.
~ Paulo Coelho
My sadness has become so routine that no one notices anymore. It's really good to finally talk about it, but what I have to say runs deeper than that false happiness. I don't sleep properly anymore. I feel I'm just being self-obsessed, trying to impress people as if I were a child. I cry alone in the shower for no reason. I've
~ Paulo Coelho
A family is fragile. It is destroyed by this kind of violence. The things a child needs - really needs - must be actively, attentively sought. Listening. Patience. Deep time.
~ Unknown
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
~ Pearl S. Buck
he believed that to answer a child's question before it is asked is to destroy natural curiosity.
~ Pearl S. Buck
And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new gate for sorrow to enter by, too, and so is every child...
~ Pearl S. Buck
What this means for parents is that you never know what your child's "sex education" class may entail. Only fourteen states require that sex ed be medically accurate.
~ Peggy Orenstein
On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.
~ David Clement-Davies
O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.
~ Harold Monro
What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
~ Erica Jong
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
~ Frank Moore Colby
My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.
~ Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.
~ Maria Montessori