Child Quotes

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY TO LET ALIVE THE CHILD WITHIN YOU?

~ Seema Brain Openers

And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.

~ Robin Hobb

I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a child as that, let alone the woman she promised to become.

~ Ashlee Willis

Wondering if an adult does a stupid thing should he be tried as a child?

~ Chuck Bridges

Rosa! Sally says. The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

~ Justine Larbalestier

She promised to be good. She wasn't.

~ Justine Larbalestier

When I was a child I had a fishless aquarium. My father set it up for me with gravel and plants and pebbles before he'd got the fish and I asked him to leave it as it was for a while. The pump kept up a charming burble, the green-gold light was wondrous when the room was dark. I put in a china mermaid and a tin horseman who maintained a relationship like that of the figures on Keat's Grecian urn except that the horseman grew rusty. Eventually fish were pressed upon me and they seemed an intrusion, I gave them to a friend. All that aquarium wanted was the sound of the pump, the gently waving plants, the mysterious pebbles and the silent horseman forever galloping to the mermaid smiling in the green-gold light. I used to sit and look at them for hours. The mermaid and the horseman were from my father. I have them in a box somewhere here, I'm not yet ready to take them out and look at them again.

~ Russell Hoban

She is bending over her child. She can’t leave her. Thechild is laid out in state on a table. She wants to take one more photograph of the child, probably the last. In life, the child would never sit still for a photograph. She says to herself, “I’m going to get the camera,” as if saying to the child, “Don’t move.

~ Lydia Davis

Like a dying ember, the child in us can flare up again when we least expect it..

~ Peggy Toney Horton

If you ever want to remember anything, tell it to a child.

~ Charmaine J. Forde

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.

~ Agatha Christie

She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?

~ Ian Mcewan

Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.

~ Agatha Christie

Sometimes she walks through the village in herlittle red dressall absorbed in restraining herself,and yet, despite herself, she seems to moveaccording to the rhythm of her life to come.She runs a bit, hesitates, stops,half-turns around...and, all while dreaming, shakes her headfor or against.Then she dances a few stepsthat she invents and forgets,no doubt finding out that lifemoves on too fast.It's not so much that she steps outof the small body enclosing her,but that all she carries in herselffrolics and ferments.It's this dress that she'll rememberlater in a sweet surrender;when her whole life is full of risks,the little red dress will always seem right.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

ParentNothing … No One Prepares a parent to raise the childNothing … No One Can ever prepare a parent to bear the loss of child

~ Neena Verma

She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be faced.

~ John Connolly

Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!

~ Ivan Turgenev

When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood.

~ Gugu Mona

Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.

~ J.r. Rim

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

~ George R.r. Martin

He wants his children to have an old life and a new life, a life that is indivisible from all lives past, that grows from them, exceeds them, and another that is original, pure, free, that is beyond the prejudice which protects us, the habit which gives us shape. He wants them to know both degradation and sainthood, the one without humiliation, the other without ignorance.

~ James Salter

I can't get it why did I name my book series, I'm talking about The Life Of One kid. I'm talking about the last word Kid?? Aren't your curious I'm with British Accent and putting Kid the American word for child the last? I'm also curious I still don't know, I really don't know why. Child sounds like a baby maybe that's all, kid sounds like a child in aobut 7-8 years old!

~ Deyth Banger

You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel.

~ V.c. Andrews

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

The day after two feet of snow paralyzed the eastern part of the United States, the sun shone brightly from clear blue skies and it was as if nothing had ever happened – except for the deep snow that still covered the ground.Peggy Toney Horton wrote:“This beautiful sunny afternoon reminds me of a child who misbehaved and then looked at his mother with wide eyes and declared, ‘I didn't do it!

~ Peggy Toney Horton

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

~ Neil Gaiman

Right mothering meets the child’s need. Focusing on what the child should not be draws resistant energy. Pointing out what the child should be feeds self-hatred and struggle.

~ Vimala Mcclure

We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions “helping my child to gain admission.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?

~ Rafael Yglesias

I have seen Ikpea too. Ikpea is not dead, he is in the evil forest with Amende… Pg.70

~ Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

I know what it is: it's a green mamba snake away up in the tree. You don't have to be afraid of them anymore because you are one. They lie so still on the tree branch; they are the same everything as the tree. You could be right next to one and not even know. It's so quiet there. That's just exactly what I want to go and be, when I have to disappear. Your eyes will be little and round but you are so far up there you can look down and see the whole world, Mama and everybody. The tribes of Ham, Shem, and Japheth all together. Finally you are the highest one of all.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A.J. watches Maya in her pink party dress, and he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

The abject impulse is inalienably connected with the feminine, specifically the maternal. As it forms out of the undefined morass of relations, surfaces and currents that existed before the Oedipal or mirror-stage coordinated them, the subject seems built around a primal sense of loss. The developing sense of the limits of the body is focussed on those holes in it's surface through which the outside becomes inside and vice versa: the mouth, anus, genitals, even the invisibly porous surface of the skin. It was the mother's body that was most connected with these crossing-points, as it fed and cleaned the undefined infant body. The sense that boundaries and limits are forming around this permable flesh is interpreted then as the withdrawal or even loss, of intimacy with the body of the mother, firstly in the increasing distance of the practical hygiene operations it performs and secondly, more remotely, beyond that in it's archaic ur-form as the body through which the child entered into the world.

~ Nick Mansfield

Disclosure without therapy is the second rape of the child.

~ Jean G. Moore

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot and this child was going to change everything. Of course it was way too soon – both sides were totally unprepared, not to mention the fact that they had their parts mixed up. The girls were only interested in romance, and the robots in completing a transaction.

~ Kathryn Davis

When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you’re left with is a stunned bitterness at the realisation that you’re just the same as everybody else.

~ Michael Marshall Smith

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.

~ Peter Watts