Quotes of: Child Keyword

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Samuel Richardson

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

Sara Sheridan

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

Scarlett Thomas

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

Tobin Bell

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

Tim Crouch

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

Tess Gerritsen

I feel like the second child feels like they have to do everything faster.

Tori Spelling

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

Keith Emerson

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Kim Edwards

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

Kim Edwards

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

Kim Edwards

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

Kim Edwards

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

Kate Mosse

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

Kailash Satyarthi

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

King Solomon

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

Kay Thompson

I always thought that you having my child was our destiny,bt i can't even vibe with you sexually

Kanye West

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Lyman Abbott

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Lauren Graham

I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things.

Leo McCarey