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Quotes About Child

If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom.
~ Nalini Singh
The idea that a child him- or herself may be an active agent influencing the systems of family, school, and government was first proposed by Bronfenbrenner (1979).
~ Unknown
Prayer Child of Bethlehem, we are grateful to know that you came to ordinary people in an ordinary place, because we are ordinary. May your glory shine bright in this ordinary place we call home.
~ Unknown
The truth is, it's impossible for any parent to know what his or her child will be like as an adult. But we can tell you that the sensory smart child of sensory smart parents is a person who is empowered to take responsibility for himself, for his body, and for his behavior. That's an outstanding quality any parent would be proud to see in a child.
~ Unknown
He pointed to the newborn.'This way he'll have a home, he'll have parents, he'll have a brother.' 'And a rapist for a father.
~ Nancy Pickard
I want that child around for the rest of its life to remind Tom what a fool he is.
~ Nancy Pickard
A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.
~ Unknown
She listens at doors and around corners. She has always had this habit. A child in danger must learn to pay more attention to the adults than a child loved and cherished.
~ Naomi Alderman
But all these were not the true religion. For the true religion is love, not fear. The strong mother cradling her child: that is love and that is truth. The girls pass this news from one, to the next, to the next. God has returned, and Her message is for us, only us.
~ Naomi Alderman
A child in danger must learn to pay more attention to the adults than a child loved and cherished.
~ Naomi Alderman
Treat your child with reverence and you need no parenting manuals.
~ Unknown
I will comb it with my own claws," said the dragon, "for I see that the child has hair the colour of gold, which is the only right colour for hair.
~ Naomi Mitchison
The servant, still a child, cranes his neck, turns his face up toward all of them. He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood, a pale mistress on his back, heavier every year.
~ Natasha Trethewey
Fouada, the young child, listened without understanding a word of what he said but instead read the teacher's features as he spoke. When he said the word 'private', she didn't understand what it meant, but she felt from his expression that it meant something ugly and obscene, and she shrank into her chair, grieving for her female self.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
It was as simple and yet as incomprehensible as the moment a small child asks her father, "Why can't you be with us?" And the father must utter the terrible words, "There are other children like you, a great many of them...." and then one's voice trails off.
~ Nelson Mandela
Laughing like crazy the child goes back to the city gives birth to monsters creates earthquakes hairy women run naked old folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.
~ Nicanor Parra
The first step toward better policy is to amend our understanding of people's struggles so that it is less about individual irresponsibility and more about our collective irresponsibility in tolerating levels of child poverty that would be unacceptable in the rest of the developed world.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
The National Academies of Sciences, Medicine and Engineering, tasked by Congress with investigating how to reduce child poverty in the United States, issued a landmark report in 2019 that concluded that each year child poverty costs Americans about $1 trillion in crime, education and welfare costs and related expenses.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Found in a small stone cave bitten from the roadside, stitchless save for his great outsized boots and a plague of flies, fat on the human scrappage of dinners long past, Toad squatted in the slitted stomach of a warm child, eating loudly the face of her hapless, headless father, who sat a good foot off the ground impaled up the ass on a pointed post.
~ Nick Cave
Humming softly with the child asleep in his arms, Sardus Swift looked to the winking stars and saw the moon - a smirk on the face of heaven - as he made his way home.
~ Nick Cave
Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed But all the past still yet to come…
~ Unknown
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
~ Nicki Minaj
Take your joy, then, child, just tell me no more about it, and don't say I didn't warn you.
~ Nicola Griffith
The child's world changed late one afternoon, though she didn't know it.
~ Nicola Griffith