Child Quotes - Page 7

Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh...

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

-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.

Children are sacred beings.

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

Death was kind.” He drew a sharp breath. “But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

A Parent's insecurity is a Child's nightmare

She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

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?

The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?

When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the child

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.

I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.

Educate every child.

-And what would you do if you lost a child?-I would think I was going to die, Elena said. But I wouldn't. I learned long ago that I must give up my child to the earth, to God, to the world, to death, to the possibility of death, to the possibility of disease, and in doing so I became at peace. Because I had let my child go. And in letting the child go, I became colder, more distant, and more at peace. But I still loved the child, don't be wrong. As you love your child. I am sorry.

Peace is an innocent child hated by some deviant and those who hate him will find no peace ever in their lives!

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

When coming to making kids: Size doesn’t count, it’s sperm count that counts.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

She's a tangled mess of wild- a forest nymph, a goddess child. She's like the seductive sea - feral and fierce, calm and serene. She's the starfish swimming in my soul, the woman child who keeps me sane, who keeps me whole.

My child reflect the treatment I give.

Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.

Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.

Well, it’s too late. I’m already attached. And you won’t know if it will last unless you really, really try, right?”“What is that supposed to mean?”“Well, Charlie said I could live with them. And you too. She really likes you. She said she’s never had a mother, and she asked me if I would mind sharing mine. I told her I wouldn’t if she didn’t mind sharing her father.

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

With the gentle force of their words, the dogged warmth of their embrace, and the assuring touch of souls softly bared, mothers are silently shaping whole societies and authoring entire cultures that sit poised on the horizon of the future. And although we ignorantly relegate such roles to some lower caste status, we would be wise to understand that the role of a mother sets the cadence of the future.

38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and warned me not to forget it. I remember his words but never did figure out what he meant!)

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

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

And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

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.

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - ""I am NOT naming our child Buford...

This was true, she knew. Being involved with him gave her the privileged position of knowing him intimately. There were nights when he would wake up sweating, the nightmares returning out of the blue after a peaceful period sometimes weeks long. Growing up in the middle of a fierce civil war could indelibly mark a child. To Mykl, birthdays were always just another year under the belt, where the only reason to celebrate was that you weren’t dead yet. She took his hand, squeezed it tight and led him inside.

This is heaven my child.

The imagination and trust of a young child are immeasurable. Through the prism of their eyes all things are possible, all dreams come true, and all people are friends. There is beauty in the seriousness of their play and their laughter is pure and unspoiled. Regardless of what other people say…go ahead and act like a child. Hang on to that simple spirit of living for as long as you possibly can.

If a child is roughly treated and not respected and not shown love, the child will have problems with self-esteem

The partnership between nurses and families is based on mutual trust, and defining the boundaries and rules clearly will help everyone involved, especially your child.

A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn.

A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.