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Quotes About Child

A great burden had been lifted from my soul. I had divested its weight onto the child Rayojini, and I knew she would not feel it there. It could not harm her. Not yet. Not for a long time.
~ Storm Constantine
The child was my little seed. As had been promised in the ritual, I would haunt her to womanhood. I would nurture and strengthen her powers from afar. She would flourish within the caul of my benevolence.
~ Storm Constantine
It was possible this girl's father had merely been named as child for the renegade Watcher, but the idea that it might really be Kashday was too alluring to ignore.
~ Storm Constantine
Sweet child. He stamps his foot and we find it endearing. We curb our temper and spare him the rod. What gentle parents we are." "We are indeed," Mordryn said. "We are indeed.
~ Storm Constantine
The pillars were covered in representations of serpents, most of which were winged. Others were half human or half Grigori; a woman's torso rising from a thick ophidian coil; a man with twin snakes for legs whose gaping maw devoured a child with a viper's head.
~ Storm Constantine
He watched Daniel develop friendships with the Kurds, and recognised the barbs of jealousy in his heart. When the child Adina put her arms around Daniel and nestled against him, Shem yearned to be in her place.
~ Storm Constantine
A shimmering blue sphere hung above the sea, illuminating the angry cresting waves. Daniel peered at it, feeling that he'd evoked it, although the memory of doing so had vanished. It would be Ishtahar his goddess, bringing more puzzles to him, and obscure answers to his questions. He saw her again as a child, hovering with dripping feet above the water, encased in her own bubble of light.
~ Storm Constantine
We must go to Taparak, and find ourselves a child. Someone who is yet untrained and whose mind is more malleable. We have no choice. It is either this, or we go home and wait for the sickness to find us.
~ Storm Constantine
She was imaginative and naturally wild, but no one who met the demure, tidy child would ever have guessed that.
~ Storm Constantine
I felt my strength begin to falter and told Beth we would examine only two more souls, when a condensed node of energy attracted my attention. Within it gleamed the radiance of a child, but the diffuse glow around it indicated minds expanded beyond normal consciousness. Could we be so fortunate as to discover what we were looking for this soon?
~ Storm Constantine
There: the child, her lovely gleam, her bright innocence, so trusting. And she too reaches out to us.
~ Storm Constantine
Lead her. Guide her. Oh, it will be our privelege, sweet child. I am breathless before the beauty of her naked soul.
~ Storm Constantine
Now the light is rich and full and constant, bathing the fields, the garden, the gathering of friends. Here is a single afternoon in the lives that lie ahead. Two of these people are lovers, and one is expecting a child. Two of these people love one another, and are celibate. The air is so still, so still. These moments are perfect. No one speaks.
~ Sue Gee
Mrs O'Leary said, 'Tis the child I feel sorry for', and all the people looked up and saw me, so I looked especially sad, I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.
~ Sue Townsend
It is many months until then. They could make my life very hard. I could lose the child or even my own life. How can I not feel endangered after the evil deed that occurred?
~ Sujata Massey
sense "your unlovable teenager," please give me your loving heart for my own child. Show me today specific things in him that I can love. Remind me of positive traits that he does have! Help my attitude toward him not to depend on his response.
~ Susan Alexander Yates
Anticipating a boomerang child seems the odds-on thing to do. Think about furnishing - hello, sleeper sofa - with this in mind.
~ Jean Chatzky
In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
~ Forest Whitaker
More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that's why they get them.
~ Romeo Dallaire
The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.
~ Edward Zwick
I'm the sole provider for my child, I don't get any help. I'm not saying we're poverty stricken, but it does mean I have to work hard.
~ Laila Rouass
The most important part of a child's learning journey is a solid educational foundation.
~ Kay Ivey
You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.
~ Ann Cotton
The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.
~ Robert Boswell, Tumbledown