Quotes of: Unborn-child Keyword

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

The Final Empire

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

The Forgotten Garden

Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

The Forgotten Garden

Julia could form no opinion of Robert, the bespectacled middle child, for he passed the entire journey with his nose stuck in a book, returning only monosyllabic answers to any questions put to him

Family Plot

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

The Glass Castle

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

The Glass Castle

Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the birthrate per anum?' is zero (one hopes).

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

It's called the FATLOSE trail. FATLOSE stands for 'Fecal Administration To LOSE weight,' an example of PLEASE— Pretty Lame Excuse for an Acronym, Scientists and Experimenters.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

I suppose if you ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

Love may not be enough to wake a child in the morning, dress him, and get him to school, then to feed him at night, bathe him, and put him to bed. Still, can any of us imagine a childhood without it?

Hope's Boy

Examine your self-talk. Never speak to yourself more harshly than you would to a small child.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The Hobbit

No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.

How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really it's the same thing for years and years.

Boy, Snow, Bird

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Hello, companion," said Magnus. The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss. "I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship," said Magnus.

The Bane Chronicles

My mother has a gap between her two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar. Each child in this family has the same space connecting us.

Brown Girl Dreaming

A brick could be placed on your child’s cafeteria lunch tray, in place of the less appetizing and more unnatural food they normally serve.


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