Quotes of: Child Keyword

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

The Setting Sun

You do not have to respond to a tiny annoying mosquito with a large hammer. You know what will happen? You will miss and hurt yourself.

Tuesday's Child: A Memoir

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

The Thirteenth Tale

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

When I Was a Child I Read Books

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

Your Child's Health Abroad: A Manual for Traveling Parents

I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of t...

Gary Sheffield

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

The Road

When you are trying to change the questions, you have to realize that many people are quite resistant to such a change. They like the answers they have.

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

Roger Federer

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

Swami Dhyan Giten

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

Saki

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

Story Musgrave

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

Thomas Sowell

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

Karl Shapiro

The child's existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her.

Mary Costello

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

Martin Lewis Perl

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Mary Wesley

Interviewer (Louise Tucker): What did you want to be when you grew up? Have you always wanted to be a writer? IllumBerg: When I was a child I was busy being a child. [...]

Natasha Illum Berg