Quotes About Child

You can't fool a child. She would sense the lack of warmth between us, feel the resentment, and hear the silences . . .

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Empedocles claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebræ; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken.

When they put you on stage / you looked around and saw I was the prize waiting to be awarded. / At last you took a step into the rest of your life / and left me on stage bawling like a child.

Dorme, dorme, meu menino Dorme no Mar dos Sargaços Que mais vale o mar a pino Que as serpentes nos meus braços.

We need to always deal with the child in front of us, not the child of our fantasies.

It is hardly surprising that I have devoted a great deal of time and energy in my professional career to encouraging parents to be present with the child right in front of them rather than being overly focused on the future.

Intrusion and support are two fundamentally different processes: support is about the needs of the child, intrusion is about the needs of the parent. This

One of the quickest ways to discourage a child's budding interest is to take it out of the realm of play and turn it into one more organized activity.

I felt the currents move. The grains of sand whispered against each other. His wings were lifting. The darkness around us shimmered with clouds of his gilded blood. Beneath my feet were the bones of a thousand years. I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.

Circe, he says, it will be all right. It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. They are words you might speak to a child. I listen to his breath, warm upon the night air, and somehow I am comforted. He does not mean it does not hurt. He does not mean we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

They gave her to a mortal, trying to shackle the child's power. Dilute him with humanity, diminish him.

and the Sunday the bishop came you couldn't see Halley's Comet any more and you saw the others being confirmed and it lasted for hours because there were a lot of little girls being confirmed too and all you could hear was mumble mumble this thy child mumble mumble this thy child and you wondered if you'd be alive next time Halley's Comet came round

There was something unfair about a system in which a little kid was brought into a courtroom and surrounded by lawyers arguing and sniping at each other under the scornful eye of a judge, the referee, and somehow in the midst of this barrage of laws and code sections and motions and legal talk the kid was supposed to know what was happening to him. It was hopelessly unfair.

The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna's oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The

At times he thinks like a terrorist, then he cries like a little child. - Reggie Love

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

These test results were bewildering to Jack's mother, Alice, who considered him to be an inattentive child; in her view, Jack's propensity for daydreaming made him immature for his age.

One day, Jenny Fields thought, she would like to have a baby – just one.

Oh my God! You're wearing your bowling shoes! Only you would wear bowling shoes to your child's sickbed.

It followed that anyone who could strengthen a fortification, repair a boat, power an oar, pay others to do these things, or even bring up a child who might someday do them, would be serving the state.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.