Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.
It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.
I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.
You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
The reason we have to regulate . . . church schools is that . . . children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.
My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.
We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.
The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about your books than you do!
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels.
Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop.
Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.
I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.
Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.
Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.
I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.