Quotes About Child

What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

A pet around a small child teaches them responsibility and passion.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

If the abuser is a parent or caretaker, the abuse may be the most attention the child has had from that person. To the child, withholding attention can be a powerful form of coercion. Sexual molestation may be accompanied by physical expressions of affection that are sometimes the only affection the child receives.

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

Knowing what you want to do and then what you have to do to make it happen is one big difference between adult creativity and child's play.

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

Oh child that didst despise thy life so much When it seemed only thine to keep or lose, How the fine ear felt fall the first low word "Value life, and preserve life for My sake!"

Go practise if you please With men and women: leave a child alone For Christ's particular love's sake!

Theoretically, the procedure might be more stable if it was applied to a human fetus in vivo. An unborn child in the womb.

It was like having a child forever at your heels - a persistent, intelligent, embarrassing, deceitful, dangerous child

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus insignis ad deformitatem puer esto). (Modern moral philosophers, like Joseph Fletcher and Princeton University's Peter Singer, advocate the same thing.)

On the slopes of Dragonmount shall he be born, born of a maiden wedded to no man.

genes and fetal environment are relevant. But most important, recall the logic of collapsing different types of trauma into a single category. What counts is the sheer number of times a child is bludgeoned by life and the number of protective factors.

So oxytocin is central to female mammals nursing, wanting to nurse their child, and remembering which one is their child.