Quotes About Child

The most bitter thing for a child is to see in another just the kind of son his mother deserved

The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.

That would be a slow and cruel death," said Gebe Meskal quietly. "He may survive a week on such a regime, but so little of a skin is not sufficient water for a man laboring in the desert." Telemakos said through his teeth, "It is for a child.

The way [we conduct naming experiments is] to show the child two pictures, [for example, of] a baby and a doggie. You ask, "Where's the baby?" Or "Where's the doggie?" However, if [you] change the sentence a little bit and you say, "There's a ball over there," and put [the word "ball"] in the middle instead of at the end [of the sentence], they fall apart completely. They can't get it. Fernald

Child!' Eleanor exclaimed. 'You didn't say there'd been a child!' 'I said a catastrophe,' her mother replied. 'And believe me, in cases such as these, the words are one and the same.

I looked like a finalist in a competition to find Britain's least convincing flower child.

Education is a social thing; that is to say, it brings the child into contact with a definite society and not with society in general.

First as an ideal planted in the soil of our soul- the central part where God is- held in mind as the perfect ideal, then brought forth or born as the perfect child, the Christ consciousness.

If love is a child, passion is a man.

First day of the new life. Very strange. Feeling almost skittish all day. Exhausted now yet feverish also, like a child at the end of a party. Like a child, yes: as if I had suffered a grotesque form of rebirth.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather…I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

In a very short time, I have come to realize that a mother will do almost anything - lie, cheat, even steal - for the sake of her child.

who will be calling her Mommy before long." She took a deep

Which is more abiding – a mother's love or a child's need for it?

there was no greater joy than having a child, no matter how much pain or how many problems they bring with them.

I pictured myself sitting by the fire and knitting the Celtic mists and shadowy pools into my cloth. I pictured Jonathan getting up from his typewriter and going out to split wood like a man in Ingmar Bergman, and the child, with woollen mittens flapping at its cuffs, tottering after him.

Owing to the high infant mortality of the times, estimated at one or two in three, the investment of love in a young child may have been so unrewarding that by some ruse of nature, as when overcrowded rodents in captivity will not breed, it was suppressed.

The fact is, that no man, whatever his system may be, refrains from instilling prejudices into his child in any matter he has much at heart.

I was a child. It was an accident. It wasn't my fault. *Why is there so much red?* Not understanding. But I understand now. I'm told. *Where's Lola????* But I've never told. I was four years old. *WHY IS THERE SO MUCH RED? WHY IS THERE SO MUCH RED?*

I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.

When you educate and develop your players, it is important they recognise you are sometimes crazy and a child and want to play football. Even though I am a manager, there will always be a good relationship with them. They know I am not only the guy who tells them ideas but that I can also be a crazy child as well - and that is important.