Quotes About Child

Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other side.

For mercy's sake, the child is crazy! exclaimed Miss Rottenmeier, running up the stairs. In her hurry she had bumped into Sebastian, who was just then coming down. Bring the unlucky child up! she called to him, rubbing her head. All right, many thanks, answered the butler, rubbing his head, too, for he had encountered something far harder than she had.

Child of the First War, forgotten by the Second, We called you Metro-land. We laid our schemes, Lured by the lush brochure, down byways beckoned

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

Until this original pain is embraced and worked through, the person cannot recover from the effects of the violation. Without doing their original pain grieving, they cannot find and reclaim their wonder child.

The only way a child can develop a sense of self is through a relationship with another.

The "voice" may be described as the language of an insidious self-destructive process existing, to varying degrees, in every person. The voice represents an external point of view toward oneself initially derived from the parents' suppressed hostile feelings toward the child.

Children who are not loved in their very beingness do not know how to love themselves. As adults, they have to learn to nourish, to mother their own lost child.

For knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the mysteries of the gospel, without any work of grace in the soul. You see, even if a man has all knowledge, he may still be nothing, and so, consequently, not be a child of God.

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

Sorrow is the child of too much joy

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

There is someone who has my heart. Their smile makes my day. Their laughter is like sunshine to me. Their happiness brings me happiness. My child.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.

He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.

She didn't ask to be a mother, She didn't ask to be pregnant, Yet she is. What she does ask for is for you to step up and be the loving, caring, responsible father the child deserves.

He's not a man if he's not willing to take the risk; he's not a boy if he doesn't regret his love one bit and he's not a child if he has made you feel that with hope there's a will.

You know you're a mother when the smallest wimper from your child can wake you from a dead sleep.

A Mother's dream is to raise up a child who will grow up and be a blessing to the entire world.