Quotes of: Your-child Keyword

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is ...

The Search for the Red Dragon

I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join...

Money, Possessions and Eternity

By the Middles Ages it was a sin to have sex with a child. If an adult were guilty of such a sin, one remedy was to declare the child a witch. The child thus became an offender who "beguiled" the adult with the power of the Evil One. Understanding th...

Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in w...

Kathy Acker

Song of myself A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it ...

Walt Whitman

Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.

The Child Thief

Almost lost you," he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. "Been through too much, me and you. We're going to finish this thing together.

The Child Thief

Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?

The Child Thief

The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?

The Child Thief

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Embassytown

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

The Book of Unknown Americans

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. But I didn't really know I wanted to act when I was a c...

Jordan Bridges

People don't understand being a child star is very hard because first off, to be a child star, you have to be very unique. These kids are talented to be able to do it at such a young age. At the same time, you go through the pressures of bullying and...

Romeo Miller

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

The Inheritance of Loss

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.

Killosophy

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

Numbers... a Gangsta's Child: A Woman's Journey from Rags to Riches

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Song of Myself