Determined Child Quotes

#1. Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise, no one could have deflected me from my path.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#2. Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#3. Ruby Stevens was determined, ambitious and tough. She had to fend for herself in so many ways as a child and always felt apart, on her own.

Victoria Wilson

#4. A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

Russell D. Moore

#6. I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

Kate Winslet

#7. Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

Grace Slick

#8. A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Barack Obama

#9. I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

Jackie Gleason

#10. As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

Harald Zur Hausen

#11. Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.

Bernice Weissbourd

#12. I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. The sacred-walk by child takes place with many endured attempts to stand on his or her feet.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. But there is probably nothing in the world as determined as a child with a dream

Donald Spoto

#15. I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the family wanted me to be graceful. When I found out I liked to dance and people seemed to like to watch me, I was determined to go places.

Vera-Ellen

#16. America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Addams