Top 95 Child Gift Quotes
#1. The land's fruitfulness is the "natural" consequence of covenant faithfulness enacted on both sides, Israel's and God's. A productive land is a gift something like a child to a healthy marriage; in each case, thriving results from and witnesses to long-sustained faithfulness between two partners.
Ellen F. Davis
#2. Oh unicorn, Oh magic good, Let me laugh as a child should, Let the gift of childhood, Come back to me, For one day, Just, as it should.
S Rob
#3. the imagination of a child is the most precious gift we can share
C.L. Bennett
#4. Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.
Anna Akhmatova
#5. Each layer is marked with the name of a child. First child takes off first layer, and passes it to next child named. Until finally the name on the last layer is the one to receive gift." "That's a
Juliet Blackwell
#6. Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.
Amy Grant
#7. Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.
Gaston Leroux
#8. The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he'll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he'll want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift you can give your child. Give it as generously as you give him food.
Glenn Doman
#9. The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
George W. Bush
#10. It's possible to make sense of what's morally at stake in an appreciation of the gift of life, or the gift of a child, without necessarily presupposing that there is a giver. What matters is that the gift - in this case, the child - not be wholly our own doing, our own product.
Michael Sandel
#11. I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.
Lola Kirke
#12. In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.
Bryce Courtenay
#13. The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time
Kevin Heath
#14. One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.
John Turturro
#15. In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it.
Daphne Zuniga
#16. I like helping children. I have a big thing with children. You can correspond with the child, send something to them as a gift. You know it's actually getting there and you are doing something to help.
Lisa Marie Presley
#17. Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.
Doc Childre
#18. Among the most sacred gifts you can give your child is the gift of health. This gift is best given by example." Dr. Rand Olson
Rand Olson
#19. A child comes from God, a child
is a gift from God, but a child is
not our possession.
Give the child unconditional love
and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#20. They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected ... but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.
Stephen King
#21. The Unexpected Gift
Torn asunder from her slumber
in the hour of half past three
The child knew the tyrannical regime
and followed instinctively.
-(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)
Muse
#22. My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.
Gerald Durrell
#23. The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.
Louis C.K.
#24. A new star, the Christ child, God's gift to mankind; these are what Christmas is made of.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
Ted Danson
#26. Somebody bought me a Snuggie as a joke gift. Haha, the joke's on you, I enjoy it. I toss and turn at night, finally a blanket that's like, 'I'm going to keep you warm.' It's like having a small child with polio keep you in a full nelson - the perfect pressure.
Daniel Tosh
#27. Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.
Michael Scott
#28. A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
Russell Lynes
#29. Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?
Kristin Cashore
#30. Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can't do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.
Caroline Kennedy
#31. If you can give the wisdom of life to a child; teach to love all regardless of what they believe in, that life is a precious gift to all, judgments of hell and heaven are manmade concept and that every one's purpose in life is to serve Humanity at large...
Husam Wafaei
#32. Each time somebody working for the Maison has a baby, the atelier creates miniature blouses-blanches, exactly like the ones we wear, with the child's name embroidered across the front. That is our welcome-to-this-world gift.
Martin Margiela
#33. Never deny yourself love, my child. For to deny love is to deny God's greatest gift. And who are we to deny God?
John Shors
#34. Yours is the gift of words that cannot be spoken," the Queen said to her, "and your brother's is the Angel's own gift. Your father made sure of it, when your brother was a child and before you were ever born.
Cassandra Clare
#35. The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#36. A book is not just paper and ink, it's a world full of dreams, imaginations, knowledge, awakening, emboldening and a lot, lot more invaluable treasures. Gift your child a book - introduce them to the joy of reading.
Jyoti Arora
#37. To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality - not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting.
Justin Cronin
#38. If I had influence with the good fairy ... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
Rachel Carson
#39. From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and it was a great way to interact with people and communicate with people.
Jeff Koons
#40. If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
#41. I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
Ann Brashares
#42. For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.
Mother Teresa
#43. The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#44. If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.
Stuart Duncan
#45. The most powerful tool you have is your mind, which is a gift from God. Use it to question your limiting beliefs, use it to understand yourself, and use it to love yourself the way a loving mother loves her child.
Cynthia Belmer
#46. My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
Debra Messing
#47. Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.
Sushmita Sen
#49. Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity. It is up to us, as adults, to see that they are properly taken care of and given all the love and attention they deserve. If we did so, I have no doubt our world would be drastically different and much more humane.
Laurence Overmire
#50. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist: "Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give to your child.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#51. The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.
Ron Fournier
#52. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#53. The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.
Muhammad
#54. Control your temper, or it will control you. Sometimes even remotely, like a toy car. Christmas is coming up, and for only $44.44 I'll sell you a gift that would be perfect for the child in your life.
Jarod Kintz
#55. I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.
Maureen Brady
#56. Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.
Storm Constantine
#57. I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.
Alicia Keys
#58. When you make a child happy, the best gift you will ever get will be the smile of that child!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents.
To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.
J.R. Rim
#60. When a child gives you a gift, even if it is a rock they just picked up, exude gratitude. it may be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen to give it to you
Dean Jackson
#61. I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
Ann Voskamp
#62. Education is the best gift you can ever give to your child. Educate your child wisely and smartly.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#63. Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.
Pope John Paul II
#64. Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death
Carsten Jensen
#65. Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#67. Our souls are transitory; one single life is fleeting. Based on some children's accounts, not all souls are immediately reincarnated. Sometimes the consciousness can choose rebirth. What a lovely thought to look upon your child and realize that he entrusted you to raise him. What a gift.
Shelbi Wescott
#68. When we give over our (false sense of) control, and just allow, each change and each new experience becomes less of a worry and more of an exciting new adventure. It can be likened to awaiting Christmas (or birthday) morning as a child: Anticipation of unwrapping a beautiful new gift.
Camille Lucy
#69. Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
Carol Ann Duffy
#70. Abortion is murder in the womb ... A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
Mother Teresa
#71. A good dad will fulfill his daughter's request - but only if it's the right gift, at the right time. Sometimes he may give the gracious gift of saying no. But always - always - he cares about his child's request.
Stephanie Rische
#72. I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.
Ann M. Martin
#73. I've learned ... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
Andy Rooney
#74. A child's innocence is the one gift, that once stolen, can never be replaced.
Jaeda DeWalt
#75. A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#76. Give the gift of understanding to your child. When they feel understood, they feel loved!
Aditi Chopra
#77. We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.
Pope Francis
#78. I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.
Gretchen Carlson
#79. A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.
Hakim
#80. You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.
Sandra Dallas
#81. Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.
Richard Louv
#82. I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to draw on the walls.
Floyd Norman
#83. When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.
Kathryn Stockett
#84. A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
John Grogan
#85. Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.
Henry B. Eyring
#86. What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence?
Kathy L. Patrick
#87. The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family
Mother Teresa
#88. When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life.
Allan Lokos
#89. The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons
Rabindranath Tagore
#90. I can't feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.
J.Z. Colby
#91. Give information. What we like about giving information is that, in a sense, you're giving the child a gift he can use forever. For the rest of his life he'll need to know that "milk turns sour when it's not refrigerated,
Adele Faber
#92. This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.
Kent Nerburn
#93. Besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.
Bryce Courtenay
#94. Once you'd been with Freddie, you wouldn't go anywhere else.' (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God's gift to women.
Stephen Richards
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