Proper Child Quotes

#1. It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys
and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.

Bruno Bettelheim

#3. He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family
the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

August Strindberg

#4. The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

William Ralph Inge

#5. That's the value of a college education ... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Gaston Caperton

#6. Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers in need is a critical part of ending childhood hunger.

Hector Elizondo

#7. 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

#8. If something - if you have a good rapport then you're friends and you're offered projects together or you discover stories together. Jennifer and I discovered this story together, and it was evident to us we would only do it with each other.

David O. Russell

#9. The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

Lawrence Jackson

#10. It was a place where water brought together all elements. Water glittered with fire, water touched the banks of earth, water rippled with the touch of air. As for the fifth element, the Spirit that created all, it was as if the shape of the pool itself was a mark of Its Presence.

Joey W. Hill

#11. I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

John Steinbeck

#12. But what a path it has been! I have had to pass through so much foolishness, so much vice, so much error, so much nausea and disillusionment and wretchedness, merely in order to become a child again and be able to start over. But all of this was just and proper.

Hermann Hesse

#13. When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.

Shawn Achor

#14. I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.

Anthony Hopkins

#15. Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

Cat Cora

#16. When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

Helen Hayes

#17. When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.

Chris Matakas

#18. And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Trofim Lysenko

#19. By providing our young children with opportunities for free, child-directed play, along with proper nutrition, we are setting them up for a lifetime of healthy habits, versus interventions needed later in life.

Darell Hammond

#20. A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

Maria Montessori

#21. If you build it well, a satisfaction comes
An honor to say I built that with fidelity,
Purpose, value and integrity

Richard L. Ratliff

#22. And you know what happens when a bomb goes off? The truth about people comes out. Men leave their children and run away. Shopkeepers push aside wives and try to save their cash. People come and loot the shops. A blast reveals the truth about places. Don't forget what you're doing is noble.

Karan Mahajan

#23. Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,
the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

Charlotte Mason

#24. Once more she noted the hectoring tone, as though she were a child, unable to make proper decisions.

Colm Toibin

#25. The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Rebecca West

#26. Life itself is the proper binge.

Julia Child

#27. Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Marian Wright Edelman

#28. I tell you of my loss, child, so you will listen, slowly, and know that in life every emotion is fated to rear itself within your being. Don't judge it proper or ugly. It's simply there and yours.

Thanhha Lai

#29. When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

Richard G. Scott

#30. Of course I have a sly plan. I am a Merit, after all.

Chloe Neill

#31. Try as one might to live on the edge, thought Patrick, getting into the other lift, there was no point in competing with people who believed what they saw on television.

Edward St. Aubyn