Quotes of: Child Keyword

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Sigmar Polke

A disobedient child is one who blinks of his own volition, without being told to or even looked at. That’s usually when I get out the Behavior Cloth (a blindfold).

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The patterns learned as a child, repeat as an adult. Those with an abusive childhood are very often oh-so blind to this inescapable truth.— André Chevalier

Abuse

She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.

Artificial Gods

we should lean into the pain, instead of running away from it.

Angels at Christmas: Those Christmas Angels / Where Angels Go

They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.

Another Piece of My Heart

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

The Army of Five Men

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

Yayoi Kusama

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

My head felt like it was going to crack down the middle, like some demented dwarf was driving glass pins through my brain.

Hunter's Prayer

The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned.

The House at Riverton

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

The Handmaid's Tale

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

The Idiot

Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.

I Thirst

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting

Japanese Haiku

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Milton: Introductions

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Killosophy

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words...

The Runaway Queen

It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

Radiance of Tomorrow

He peered down at me. “Jesus Christ. You’re leaking.” If by “leaking” he meant “sobbing like a girl,” I guess so.

Strange Angels