458 quotes found
“I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial depo...”
“So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.”
“Miss Child is never bashful with butter.”
“There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.”
“It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.”
“It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.”
“An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.”
“I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.”
“I'm so thankful that there are people willing to do that - to actually carry a child nine months for someone.”
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
“Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for d...”
“I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.”
“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.”
“Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.”
“I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.”
“Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.”
“My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bi...”
“Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
“If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”
