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Quotes About Child

That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Un enfant, c'est un insurgé.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
For you have confused the upper and lower worlds. You have thrust the child of this world into living night, You have kept from the gods below the child that is theirs. The one on a grave before her death, the other, Dead, denied the grave. This is your crime.
~ Sophocles
If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.
~ Gwen Ifill
If Mom is healthy, then her child is more likely to thrive, more likely to have a better quality of life and, ultimately, better able to provide for his or herself.
~ Christy Turlington
There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.
~ Asa Don Brown
The birth of a child is divine miracle.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
~ Walter Mosley
A child is a gift from God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Get into the habit of rewarding the intellectual exertion your child puts into a given task rather than his or her native intellectual resources.
~ John Medina
What you praise defines what your child perceives success to be.
~ John Medina
Write this across your heart before your child comes into the world: Parenting is not a race. Kids are not proxies for adult success. Competition can be inspiring, but brands of it can wire your child's brain in a toxic way. Comparing your kids with your friends' kids will not get them, or you, where you want to go.
~ John Medina
There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.
~ John Milius
It was the winter wildWhile the Heav'n-born childAll meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
~ John Milton
The more attention you pay to your child, the less attention he will pay to you.
~ John Rosemond
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
~ John Ruskin
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
~ John Ruskin
To extract a child from a shallow grave seems at first, to the casual observer, a ludicrously simple matter.
~ John Smith
On suicide: Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past life.
~ John Speed
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
~ John Updike
The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
~ John Walsh
But this doctrine has been much abused." So has that of justification by faith. But that is no reason for giving up either this or any other scriptural doctrine. "When you wash your child," as one speaks, "throw away the water; but do not throw away the child.
~ John Wesley
From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.
~ John Williams
I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish on the body....And I shall pray Him, too, that the hearts of the self-righteous may be broken...
~ John Wyndham