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Quotes About Child

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
~ Heraclitus
Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.
~ Heraclitus
Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.
~ Heraclitus
Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
~ Heraclitus
Time is a child playing dice; the Kingly power is a child's.
~ Heraclitus
The more power you give your child in any discipline process, the more likely he will be to be able to make it work positively for himself.
~ Unknown
One fear creates a dereliction, the offense brings on a greater fear, and there comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off numb and directionless and ends up following a crowd and watching a killing.
~ Hilary Mantel
T]here comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off numb and directionless and ends up following a crowd and watching a killing.
~ Hilary Mantel
The child Elizabeth is wrapped tightly in layers, her fists hidden: just as well, she looks as if she would strike you. Ginger bristles poke from beneath her cap, and her eyes are vigilant; he has never seen an infant in the crib look so ready to take offense. Lady Bryan says, "Do you think she looks like the king?" He hesitates, trying to be fair to both parties. "As much as a little maid ought.
~ Hilary Mantel
Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.
~ Holly Black
I feel like a child again, a helpless child in a house of death.
~ Holly Black
He's handsome, but that makes his horribleness worse, somehow. As though he's taken something nice and made it awful. Being the single focus of his attention made me feel like a bug that a child was going to burn with a magnifying glass.
~ Holly Black
My hair whips behind me, and when Oak glances back, I have to look away. Circlet at his brow, sword at his belt, in his shining belt, he looks like a knight from a child's imaginings, out of a storybook.
~ Holly Black
I do not know what I would do to my unfamily if they pushed me away again. I am no safe thing now. A child no more, but a fully grown monster, like the ones that came for me.
~ Holly Black
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
~ Unknown
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all lifes duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.
~ Unknown
My child — come see how readily the word comes, and indeed there is none sweeter to a mother's heart and mind or on her lips — well, then, dear child, during the last two months I used to drag myself wearily and heavily about the gardens, not realizing yet how precious was the burden, spite of all the discomforts it brought!
~ Honore de Balzac
To bear a child is nothing; to nourish it is birth renewed every hour.
~ Honore de Balzac
Ooh, sacrilege!' Amy had said, because her role as the oldest child was to narrate every family argument and use big words the other kids didn't understand, while Brooke, still little and adorable, had burst into inevitable tears, and Logan's face became blank and moronic.
~ Liane Moriarty
Actually, what that child needs, thinks Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck.
~ Liane Moriarty
third child in that suburban dream of his, now at the front
~ Liane Moriarty
Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight.
~ Liane Moriarty
nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.
~ Liane Moriarty
She has a strange, not unpleasant sense of disconnection from everyone, as if she is floating somewhere high above her head and operating her body by remote control. Stretch lips to smile. Fold palms of hands around pram handle. Tip head towards child in motherly fashion.
~ Liane Moriarty