Quotes 181 till 200 of 461.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars -
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
The lonely life: an autobiography -
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
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