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Related If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child h... MADCHEN AMICK (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes f... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that. DANIEL PAULY People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... For example, if the allowance is $5 a week, I would provide a child with four dollar bills and four ... SAM RENICK The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,... C. JOYBELL C. لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت... مليكة مستظرف As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. DAVE BARRY Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when... LYSANDER SPOONER This is another example of excellent police work coupled with excellent medical intervention and evi... DANIEL WHITE Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. MORTIMER ADLER Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. ... LAKE BELL This is a literacy program for beginning readers. It's a nonjudgmental situation for the child, and ... SHARON ANDERSON Robert Sandler is a child who died when he was three years old, and he is a child who was the first ... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN While depression may be a genetic disorder, it has a strong environmental component. And, for a chil... MYRNA WEISSMAN In this life it is good to have the experience of raising a child from infant stage to adulthood,be ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People with this disability find it very hard to block out competing noises. For example, if a perso... DR. LARRY GILLAM I don't think it's a terminal position and it's not that damaging. If you find yourself having a thi... ANNE DUBOIS The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child... LARRY ELDER A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of... RICHARD DAWKINS I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... JOHN BARROWMAN Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. MORTIMER ADLER If a child says it has five senses, their parents will surely believe that it has the sixth one as w... DIRCEU ALVES FERREIRA It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will... GEORGE ORWELL At the end of the day, the General Assembly has to pick an early enough age with an adequate learnin... CARL EPPS Be mindful that the middle child has the skill and talent to be helpful, so there doesn't have to be... ANNE DUBOIS Mr. Quinn has failed to meet his responsibility to support his child, and that has consequences, ...... JENNIFER GRANHOLM There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small chil... PETER GAY You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having ... DANNEL MALLOY To me, it is funny when people say I was down. It is like when a child is trying to walk, the child ... FEMI OTEDOLA Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be ... MOTHER TERESA Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and da... CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclus... ALFRED ADLER It is a learning experience for both the parent and the child. Lots of different people come to clas... BETTY GEAREN It's a sick little creature that carries a child in her body for nine months and starts telling it n... BOBBY W. MILLER Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul... DAVE PELZER I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of... HERMANN HESSE Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the pe... CAROLYN MURPHY Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. MARTHA BECK It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever k... NAOMI JUDD Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst... KENNETH OPPEL We fill our lives with all sorts of things that make it easier for us to get along in the world: whe... STELLA YOUNG Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, ... SRIKUMAR RAO One of the reasons we wanted to get the Lamoille done was to be further up the learning curve going ... BEN ROSE I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the co... FRAN LEBOWITZ I must take issue with the term “a mere child,” for it has been my invariable experience that th... FRAN LEBOWITZ For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the o... ISHMAEL BEAH We're working on these one case at a time, doing old-fashioned gumshoe detective work. Every report ... ERNIE ALLEN Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?" "More or less." Brienne answered. Septon Meribald ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy... HUBERT SELBY JR. The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child th... JOHN ENGLER For 18 months, we had worked on something that mattered: a national system of early learning and chi... KEN DRYDEN It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everyt... HATTIE MORAHAN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM This summer we'll offer a fitness and coordination clinic for children - that could be children with... KRISTEN ROJAS Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first t... RABINDRANATH TAGORE Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a ... RABINDRANATH TAGORE I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience tha... FRAN LEBOWITZ Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled. ITZHAK PERLMAN Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the... LAURENS VAN DER POST Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the c... LAURENS VAN DER POST Often, the Rainbow Room will allow a child to remain in their own home. If the offending parent leav... MARLEIGH MEISNER Both of my kids have learning disabilities, and they don't provide the services for those children a... BARBARA MAY Only-child parents try to run interference on virtually every level in every facet of a child's exis... CHUCK WHITE Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment ... JEB BUSH If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. I... BILL COSBY One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences... O. A. BATTISTA In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the... RUPERT MURDOCH A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't jus... JASON MRAZ The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle fo... SLOAN WILSON The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. GEORGE CRUMB As the county grows, it's often up to a church to provide services that Fairfax County can't provide... LYNNE STROBEL I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child a... WILL ROGERS When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the paren... FULTON J. SHEEN battering and endangering a child to get a picture for their magazines is criminal and not business ... REESE WITHERSPOON A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another ch... TEMPLE GRANDIN It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman... JAMES S. COLEMAN The love of parents for their child is measured by the length they will go to compete with the world... UNKNOWN If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should ... BARBARA CORCORAN If Allah has willed it that way... He must have better plans for you child... HARI KUMAR K At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the c... HENRY FORD For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means... ELLEN KEY At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy bo... DALAI LAMA A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access t... ABDOULAYE WADE You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible f... HARVEY FIERSTEIN Parenting has become so intertwined with your identity that the way your child looks is seen as a di... FRANK FUREDI Having had a child, the idea of doing a film and working those 14-hour days and being away from home... GWYNETH PALTROW He has been arrested for abandonment and endangerment of a child. CAROL REES Everyone has in their mind a picture of someone with a disability, and it comes from past experience... JANE COLLINS It is not difficult for an unwise mother quite unintentionally to centre the heterosexual feelings o... BERTRAND RUSSELL It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystif... SUSAN CAIN Unfortunately R10 a year is a very small increase if you look at the cost of caring for a child in t... LYNETTE SCHREUDER
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