I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.
No child should be left behind - I've heard this from President Obama. And here, we say in Latin America, no country should be left behind.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future.
The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.
To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.
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.
I am always who I am, and anyone who's known me forever will tell you that. I guess there's enough of a child in me that that's important.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within.
Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who can not be handled by his parents any more.
Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!
A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
