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Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel

Denmark has incredibly low crime rates, and parents feel that what a child needs most is frisk luft, or fresh air. The — Frans De Waal

And then I thought: perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so no one was a greater father than I. — Nicole Krauss

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is. — Dallas Willard

You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child. — Toni Morrison

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it. — Astrid Lindgren

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him. — Giannina Braschi

Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child. — Robert McCammon

What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor? Augustine, — Richard Dawkins

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation. — Monica Johnson

I know what it is the way a child knows flying from watching a bird. — Pierce Brown

There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one's sense of what is real. — Dan Simmons

What is time
a November leaf
a child's vacillating mouth
a rose
a left-over, half-drunk glass of water. — Ilhan Berk

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. — Francis Bacon

You are to my soul what God is to a mother praying for her child at the altar. — Malak El Halabi

I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand. — Michael Leunig

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life. — Pope Francis

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?
Miss Bulstrode's thoughts. — Agatha Christie

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child? — Caroline Norton

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic. — Gail Carson Levine

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is. — Pamela Druckerman

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands. — Abraham Lincoln

I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled — Dennis Prager

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have. — Carol Ann Duffy

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. — Pearl S. Buck

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did. — Vivienne Westwood

I guess it's true what they say, that a child is as mature as his parents are incompetent." Yang — Yoshiki Tanaka

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become. — Louis Pasteur

It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier. — Peter Jackson

Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child. — Caroll Spinney

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities — Bear Grylls

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as - what I knew was that I worried a lot — David Foster Wallace

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. — J.B. Priestley

A child cannot, thank Heaven, know how vast and how merciless is the nature of power, with what unbelievable cruelty people treat each other. — James Baldwin

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real. — Maggie Q

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it. — Adam Cooper

Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp. — Matsime Simon Mohapi

What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone De Beauvoir

Like the death of a crone in one twin bed as a child is born in the other. Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying. — Sharon Olds

I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child. — Carol Alt

And yet Alan had behaved like a child, and (what is worse) a treacherous child. — Robert Louis Stevenson

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier. — Elizabeth Moon

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. — Charles Handy

Actually, what that child needs, thinks Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck. — Liane Moriarty

I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause. — Katharine Hepburn

What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren? — Robert Pyle

A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place? — Alexis Stewart

Man to the last is but a froward child;
So eager for the future, come what may,
And to the present so insensible. — Samuel Rogers

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there. — Joseph Devlin

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. — Robert Breault

What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul. — Sylvia Plath

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them? — Katie Hopkins

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him. — Samuel Rutherford

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. — Marjorie Holmes

The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family. — Bernie Sanders

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows. — John Hall Wheelock

I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important. — Teri Hatcher

What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one. — Barack Obama

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. — Sigmund Freud

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through. — Hilary Duff

A kid is what you feed it,
plus from that what can be gathered. — Will Advise

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children. — Philip K. Dick

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child? — Mitch Albom

Its easy to protest, even a child protests...the hardest part is understanding the 'why and what to protest. — Victor Truth

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance. — Charlotte Eriksson

The question isn't what will a mother do to save her child. The question is, what won't a mother do to save her child! — Sunanda J. Chatterjee

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character. — Martin Seligman

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love. — Halle Berry

What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth? — Nikki Rowe

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not. — LeVar Burton

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. — Alfred Adler

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. — Sophia Loren

What makes a child of four realize that something awful is going to happen? (168) — Robert Goolrick

what is the love of child, or mother, or dog, but the love of God, shining through another being - which is a being just because he shines through it. — George MacDonald

What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love? - — Michael J. Sullivan

What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in. — Bill Cosby

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. — P.L. Travers

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child. — Anderson Cooper

A child's purity simply sees what can be; and it is. — Cynthia K. Schilling

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. — Isabel Allende

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent. — Jostein Gaarder

He said: What is patriotism but love of the food one ate as a child? — Alexander McCall Smith

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child. — James Hillman

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear. — James Anthony Froude

from Cicero: "To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain a child always. — John Lukacs

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting. — Asghar Farhadi

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one. — Barack Obama

Pregnancy is a time to plan what kind of emotional world our child will grow up in... — Roni Jay

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. — Randall Jarrell

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours. — Max Lucado

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please. — Fergie

Altered is Zarathustra; a child hath Zarathustra become; an awakened one is Zarathustra: what wilt thou do in the land of the sleepers? — Friedrich Nietzsche

What are you, a child? Your cock is not a toy, so stop playing with it for one damn night. — Gena Showalter

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction. — Epictetus

What is it?"
"A prayer."
"For a child?"
She nodded.
"For me?"
Another nod.
"On a tree?"
"Trees spend all day looking up at God. — Mitch Albom