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Quotes About Child

kono aki wa / hiza ni ko no nai / tsukimi kana6 This autumn I'll be looking at the moon With no child on my knee.
~ Faubion Bowers
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Quando eu morrer, filhinho, Seja eu a criança, o mais pequeno. Pega-me tu ao colo E leva-me para dentro da tua casa. Despe o meu ser cansado e humano E deita-me na tua cama. E conta-me histórias, caso eu acorde, Para eu tornar a adormecer. E dá-me sonhos teus para eu brincar Até que nasça qualquer dia Que tu sabes qual é.   Esta
~ Fernando Pessoa
to say that, or something similar, might lend colour to the tedium, the way a child draws something then clumsily colours it in, blurring the edges, but to me it's just words echoing around the cellars of thought.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Today I have only reality, and I cannot play with that … Poor child exiled in his manhood! Why did I have to grow up?
~ Fernando Pessoa
The child finds the passions, rages and fears that he sees on adult faces vaguely absurd. And is it not true that all our fears, loathings and loves are entirely absurd and vain?
~ Fernando Pessoa
Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.
~ Flannery O'Connor
What child is this? "The Infinite has become a finite fact." Everything depends on this, or the nativity story is just a child's fable that no thinking adult can believe.
~ Fleming Rutledge
I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.
~ Christian Louboutin
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
~ Ted Cruz
Though I was the last child in the family, I was the first to enter the film industry.
~ Sridevi
But in the Indian film industry, from the moment a child is born, he is taught music, he is taken for classical classes.
~ Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.
~ Robert Huber
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
~ Janine di Giovanni
When it comes to gang-based child exploitation, it is self-evident to anyone who cares to look that if you look at all the recent high-profile cases, there is a high proportion of men that are of Pakistani heritage.
~ Sajid Javid
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
~ Toni Morrison
Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.
~ Rose Kennedy
This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.
~ Ishmael Beah
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
~ Groucho Marx
Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how they're reading.
~ Michael Rosen
I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife.
~ Brendan Hunt
I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.
~ Kiki Dee