Quotes About Caring For A Child

#1. I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, such a strange, unexpected joy- the happiness of caring for a child whose whole life was in my hands.

Philippa Gregory

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

Seth Adam Smith

#3. She just couldn't face caring for a child all alone.'
'People do it all the time.'
'She wasn't "people", she was herself. She knew what she could handle and what she couldn't.

Octavia E. Butler

#4. I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.

William J. Clinton

#5. If you can show your child what its like to be charming and giving, show your child what love is really all about and show your child unconditional love, show your child caring and compassion and understanding the nonjudgmental and that is what your child will become.

John Assaraf

#6. The responsibility of caring and providing for a child can both give you strength or be paralyzing at times. Depending on the attitude you choose. Ultimately I think it is very valuable to anyone's personal growth having to care for someone else than just yourself.

Olof Arnalds

#7. Like a caring mother
holding and guarding the life
of her only child,
so with a boundless heart
of lovingkindness,
hold yourself and all beings
as your beloved children.

Gautama Buddha

#8. I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

Maya Angelou

#9. How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

Ami McKay

#10. One of the most useful and important ways to be able to use your psychic gifts is to learn how to read what's happening in your very own body.

Catherine Carrigan

#11. It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

Jessye Norman

#12. If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence ... you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

Wess Stafford

#13. 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

#14. Some parents manufacture an affirmative construction of their child's disability to disguise their despair, while others have a deep and genuine experience of joy in caring for disabled children, and that sometimes the first stance can generate the second.

Andrew Solomon

#15. Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Joe Manchin

#16. Most novelists write about twisted lives.

Tom Robbins

#17. I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

Michael Pollan

#18. Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f
you up, every time.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. It was two years ago that I first met Yuki. I remember that painfully thin figure covered in dirt: malnourished, exhausted and carrying a sleeping child in his arms like it's the most precious thing in the world.

Kyuugou

#20. Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

Shania Twain

#21. It's not fair. It's not fair, she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

Kristin Cashore

#22. It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.

Judith Lewis Herman

#23. When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

Frank Shorter

#24. There was something almost sacred in the self-sacrifice that I felt was required of me as a mother, caring for this child.

Judith Warner

#25. Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

Jim Stanford

#26. I have a lot of advantages: I'm not addicted to horrifying pills. I also have surrounded myself with far more caring and upright individuals. And I wasn't abused as a child, so I'm doing okay!

Rufus Wainwright

#27. I'm not sure what gave me empathy for animals, but I do know that I have always loved animals since I was a very young child. I always felt a need to nurture and protect them. Perhaps I could see they needed that, and caring for them made me happy.

Alison Eastwood

#28. Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Martha Beck

#29. There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children ... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.

Margaret Mead

#30. No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

Hillary Clinton

#31. 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

#32. Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Chris Cleave

#33. I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#34. I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that biologically toxic environment.

Steven Magee

#35. Don't depend on anyone too much in this world because even your shadow leaves behind in darkness...

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#36. When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

Olivia Thirlby