Quotes About Child

Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Let each child have that's in our care. As much neurosis as the child can bear

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

Reading is one of the best ways to bond with your child. Bond this Christmas with "It's Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

And virtually every man, woman, and child among them wears that now ubiquitous badge of defiant solidarity, the black-and-white "Where is Lindbergh?" button.

Play for the adult is recreation, the renewal of life; play for the child is growth, the gaining of life." Tacked

Lindbergh was the first famous living American whom I learned to hate—just as President Roosevelt was the first famous living American whom I was taught to love—and so his nomination by the Republicans to run against Roosevelt in 1940 assaulted, as nothing ever had before, that huge endowment of personal security that I had taken for granted as an American child of American parents in an American school in an American city in an America at peace with the world.

This child could not command a pet dove. Harsh but true, lol!

You look as if you would eat me up," he says. "I would," I say. "I cannot think how to sate my desire for you. I think I will have to keep you prisoner here and eat you up in little cutlets, day after day." "If I kept you prisoner, I would devour you in one greedy swallow," he chuckles. "But you would not get out till you were with child.

I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, such a strange, unexpected joy- the happiness of caring for a child whose whole life was in my hands.

There will be a child, but no child. There will be a king but no king. There will be a virgin queen all-forgotten. There will be a queen but no virgin. [And Lord Robert Dudley? he whispered.] He will have the making of a prince who will change the history of the world, I whispered in reply. And he will die, beloved by a queen, safe in his bed.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

We can easily forget a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In the first place did we not bring you into existence? …[S]ince you were brought into the world and nurtured and educated by us, can you deny in the first place that you are our child and slave, as your fathers were before you?

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.