Child Quotes

I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on

~ Sarah Todd Hammer

Raising a child whether yours or not, is being anointed by God to be the guardian of his Kingdom in a form of a child.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The reason why Jane’s spirit was not broken was that she had a secret. It was her own special secret and she had told no one else except Peggy. She locked it in her heart and hugged it to herself. It was this glorious secret that filled her with such irrepressible joy and exhilaration. But it was also to be the cause of her greatest disaster, and her life-long grief.The rumour that her father was a high-born gentleman in Parliament must have reached Jane’s ears when she was a little girl. Perhaps she had heard the officers talking about it, or perhaps another child had heard the adults talking and told her. Perhaps Jane’s mother had told another workhouse inmate, who had passed it on. One can never tell how rumours start.To Jane, it was not a rumour. It was an absolute fact. Her daddy was a high-born gentleman, who one day would come and take her away. She fantasised endlessly about her daddy. She talked to him, and he talked to her.

~ Jennifer Worth

I was scared...and did not know what was coming for me next.

~ Sarah Todd Hammer

Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...

~ J.k. Rowling

Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather a child to its mother.

~ Sappho

I firmly believe that I have received the same child I was meant to receive, whether I gave birth or adopted. The same soul, the same entity, was meant to be mine, from the beginning of time.

~ Debra Shiveley Welch

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

~ Hafiz

He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

A week is a long time in the life of a child.

~ Maxwell Grantly

We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig.

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

Momma was with the pony last night. Lily and me have him in the mornings, and we give him a wash with the shammy cloths and a soapy bucket so he's ready for Jade to look after him the next night. I think Momma must ride him too rough because he's always sweating and white-eyed when we get him, pulling tight at his rope and spreading his wide beige lips. He won't settle forever and ever, he just turns circles around the stake. Me and Lily get nervy watching him paw scoops out of the backyard soil.

~ Kirsty Logan

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly

~ Pablo Neruda

Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.

~ Abeba Habtu

You can’t play with everything that looks playable, I guess even a child knows that.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

If you are waiting to gain power to do something, then there is no difference between you and an unborn child.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity…

~ J. Valor

A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.

~ Mikhail Lermontov

She knows that it's not my fault if I don't know how many Zs there are in LOSER.

~ Lauren Child

He tossed a word like a ball, never letting it fall. Instead it swam in the air, without care, strung together with an art that came straight from his heart.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

Just a child. All this time we've feared you, sought you. And you're nothing more than a human child.

~ Joshua Winning

When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the hunger of a child.

~ John Art

Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me?Kagome: I guess so.Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.

~ Rumiko Takahashi

Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they were born. I hope they will always realize how much they are loved and valued. I feel so blessed that they are in my life.

~ Tom Giaquinto

Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kid grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.

~ Gillian Flynn

Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one’s life.The first kiss, the birth of one’s first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss.

~ Benjamin M. Strozykowski

WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear—it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?

~ Walt Whitman

...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.

~ Chuck Klosterman

You stupid, conceited fool! You know nothing! You're like a child, blind to everything but its own empty stomach! Well, grow up, Carl, and join the real world. Until you do, for God's sake leave me be!

~ Amanda Browning

But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us.

~ Belinda Jeffrey

The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole... Max, at that moment, knew that only a child could have given him a weather report like that. On the wall, he painted a long, tightly knotted rope with a dripping yellow sun at the end of it, as if you could dive right into it. On the ropy cloud, he drew two figures-a thin girl and a withering Jew-and they were walking, arms balanced, toward that dripping sun.

~ Markus Zusak

I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how you can simplify it.No matter with whom you are talking, feel that you are a child and that person is also a child. When a childlike quality comes into your life, everything automatically becomes simple.

~ Sri Chinmoy

That girl is a grade one a-hole with a severe attitudinal problem.

~ Wild Child

from a child in danger to a dangerous child

~ Edward Humes

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

~ Rihanna

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

~ Aldous Huxley

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

~ Karl Lagerfeld