Quotes of: Inner-child Keyword

Never boast -- you might meet someone who knew you as a child.

Chinese

A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter.

Scottish

When a mother calls her child bastard, you can take her word for it.

Yiddish

You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospe...

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

Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ri...

Single Dad Laughing

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It's a good thing to learn more about nature in order to share this knowledge with children; it's even ...

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "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 by believing in ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Bullying is an attack upon the runts of the litter - the weak of the species, and it is predicated on a lack of bond with the parents. If a child has a secure bond with the parents, that forms a force-field around the child in terms of bullying. If t...

Stefan Molyneux

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that j...

Melanie Klein

Nahari: I'm going to Hell! I killed a child! I smashed his head against a wall. Gandhi: Why? Nahari: Because they killed my son! The Muslims killed my son! [indicates boy's height] Gandhi: I know a way out of Hell. Find a child, a child whose mother ...

Gandhi

Antonio: We were just wondering if, if it is good to just leave a few things to, to chance? Geneticist: We want to give your child the best possible start. Believe me, we have enough imperfection built in already. Your child doesn't need any more add...

Gattaca

Plainview: [mumbles] Abandoned my child. Eli Sunday: Say it louder... say it louder! Plainview: I've abandoned my child! I've abandoned my child! I've abandoned my boy! Eli Sunday: Now beg for the blood! Plainview: [sotto voce] Please, give me the bl...

There Will Be Blood

- A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in her arms. A mother knows what dangers the child will have to encounter as he grows up. She does not let the father reassure her when he makes l...

Love

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Celebration of Discipline

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

Elizabeth Berkley

Cinderella had to dress up so that the Prince could see her inner beauty.

The New Land

Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty

Père Goriot

When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?

Tender Is the Night

Poetry expresses emotion. What does your inner poet convey?

Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Evelyn Underhill