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Child Quotes

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn’t parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

– Gordon Neufeld

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

– Harry Lloyd

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

– Georgia Holt

Writing is writing to me. I’m incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I’ve done everything – historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I’ll write. It’s the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

– Geraldine McCaughrean

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

– Hideo Kojima

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

– Honore de Balzac

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

– Heber J. Grant

When people see Barack Obama, they don’t necessarily see an African-American president. They see someone who is a child of immigrants. They see someone whose family has worked hard and struggled. And they see many similarities between themselves and Barack Obama.

– Grace Meng

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

– Heraclitus

I’m not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

– Hope Davis

Since I was a very small child, I’ve had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

– Hilary Mantel

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

– Henry Ward Beecher

I don’t know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn’t the child of industry parents, and I didn’t have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

– Henry Thomas

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

– Harrison Ford

As many as half of Ethiopia’s girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

– Helene D. Gayle

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

– G. Stanley Hall

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

– Hilaire Belloc

Oh, my goodness, when you’re a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and – or Down’s Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there’s a bit of a shock you’re going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

– Joni Eareckson Tada

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is strictly believed and understood by the Sioux that a child is the greatest gift from Wakan Tanka, in response to many devout prayers, sacrifices, and promises. Therefore the child is considered ‘sent from Wakan Tanka’ through some element, namely the element of human nature.

– Robert Higheagle

A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn’t find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

– J. Michael Straczynski

My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish – she’s the shiksha goddess type – and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.

– James Gray

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

– Joyce Carol Oates

It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

– Harry Mathews

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

– John Webster

I took my kids everywhere. I didn’t have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

– Iyanla Vanzant

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I’d put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn’t actually know how to write.

– Joyce Carol Oates

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

– John Lubbock

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

– Iman

A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.

– Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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