Important In The Life Of A Child Quotes

#1. A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child.

Kathy Davis

#2. The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.

Nia Long

#3. 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.

#4. As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

America Ferrera

#5. It means that every man, woman, and child over the age, let us say, of twentyone or thirty, at the very outside, should never do anything extremely important or crucial in their life without first consulting a list of persons in the world, living or dead, whom he loves.

J.D. Salinger

#6. It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

Tracy Morgan

#7. If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs.

Cherie Blair

#8. The most important phase of a child's life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

Caroline Pratt

#9. I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

Steven Spielberg

#10. Faith in Jesus is the most important event in the history of a child's life.

Elizabeth George

#11. I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

Dirk Benedict

#12. First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

Allan Houston

#13. AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON!" which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this.

Terry Pratchett

#14. The Lourie Center is an important model to consider ... (in) mental health care ... It is imperative that we use this knowledge to help ensure that every young child in our society has the opportunity to get an emotionally healthy start in life.

Tipper Gore

#15. When your child comes home to talk about life, what could be more important?

Destin Bays

#16. Once you see a child's self-image begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.

Wayne Dyer

#17. Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.

Henry Clay Trumbull

#18. There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.

Seth Adam Smith

#19. Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Julia Child

#20. When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.

Keegan-Michael Key

#21. The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.

Herbert Ratner

#22. Nurturing a child's sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child's life.

Wess Stafford

#23. ...with this swing set your child will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely and may also learn the most important lesson of all:No matter how hard you kick,no matter how high you get , you can't get all the way around

John Green

#24. I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

Reese Witherspoon

#25. Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#26. What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#27. Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

Hillary Clinton

#28. The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.

Robert Edwards

#29. I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

Jim Doyle

#30. Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

Ela Bhatt

#31. I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

Pam Grier

#32. Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

Gary Shteyngart

#33. Preparing a child for the world of tomorrow is one of the most important roles a parent plays in a child's life.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#34. At some point, it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.

Beyonce Knowles

#35. I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

Jet Li

#36. A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#37. We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.

Peter Menzel

#38. It was important to tell people. To let people know that this can happen. Your child's body can stop. Stop breathing, stop beating.

Sarah Moss

#39. The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

Betty Smith

#40. The only moral lesson which is suited for a child
the most important lesson for every time of life
is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#41. 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

#42. One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself ... instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.

Charlotte Sophia Kasl

#43. Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me

Barbara Coloroso

#44. Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about ... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

Geoffrey Canada

#45. Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

Robert Winston

#46. When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

P.L. Travers

#47. If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

Sandra Dodd