Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Alice Walker

Raising a child whether yours or not, is being anointed by God to be the guardian of his Kingdom in a form of a child.

Unarine Ramaru

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

Carolyn Murphy

...in the lower self, love is neediness, “chemistry” or infatuation, possession, strong admiration, or even worship—in short, traditional romantic love. Many people who grew up in troubled homes and who experienced a stifling of their Child Wit...

Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

A brick could be used to replace the brother you never had. Well, it’s only a possibility, but you probably won’t like it, because as soon as your parents gain another child, you’ll quickly find out that you were only their favorite child becau...

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is the most important thing of all. Because he does not understand it, his understanding is more childish than the child's and...

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, an...

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when t...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect family. They put the burden of stability on the child to avoid facing the fact that they, as parents, cannot provi...

Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

Life starts and it ends with a breath, in between these two breaths lays a story; a child is born and explores the world; the child smiles and cries; the child lives and becomes a man; the man learns that life is neither good or bad, just beautiful t...

Quetzal

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brai...

Thomas A. Edison

The child hates the one who gives him all he wants.

African

The child who died too soon was always beautiful and intelligent.

Japanese

Knowledge acquired as a child is more lasting than an engraving on stone.

Saudi Arabian

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

A Child Called "It"

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Blue Nights

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

from a child in danger to a dangerous child

No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

Not only am I not my dad’s favorite child—I’m his only child.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then? Juniper: I can't be bothered.

Wise Child