Quotes About Child

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

Thine is the kingdom. Take the throne. Sit on the chiefest chariot. Take up Thy lodging in my heart forever and suffer not the dead child to lie in the place of the living child and a dead world and damnable lusts, where my Lord should lodge.

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

love of one's child is the most powerful love there is, and he's always been terrified of it.

There are moments of the most crazy all-encompassing joy. What a phenonenally beautiful kid. A funny, dear child. Kind and open and loving.

Numberless are the hours, child,' Mr. Valmont said to me soon after I entered, 'that I have employed in pondering on your welfare:—yet you are not the docile and grateful creature I expected to find you.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. His last word was, 'Love' 'Love, my child, love, love!'(then he had done with grief) 'Love, my child.' Ere I answered he was gone, And none was left to love in all the world.

But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.

Everything is perfectly tranquil in Paris, I assure you — theatres full and galleries open as usual. At the same time, timid and discouraged persons say, 'Wait till after the elections,' and of course the public emotion will be a good deal excited at that time. Therefore, judge for yourself. For my own part I have not had the slightest cause for alarm of any kind — and there is my child! Judge....

His black robes rustled as he turned, and Will fought the ridiculous urge to step behind Kit like a child twisting him in his mother's skirts.

The wolf stalks him anyway, this accidental discovery, this pale-eyed, scar-faced child who was not a child, two thousand years gone by when the wolf loved him.

Surely it's a harmless hobby. A way to pass the time, a little cruel pleasure while the world winds down. Surely it is only the cord binding his neck that makes his breath sting when this child catches his eye and-puzzled-frowns as if he thought he knew him. It's like a gift, a little added joy in the end of everything, that Strifbjorn is back for him.

The last thing this fumbling child needed was to think somebody he was looking to as a role model found him amusing.

Your brother had lovely patterns from his shoulders to his thighs. Very black, on so much white, white ski. Do you have marks like that?" "I wouldn't show you if I did," Matthew said softly through the rage that wanted to take the bit and run. "Give me back that child.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

How can any child grope its way through life if its parents or guardians tear up all the pages of the past?

She had taken to herself her mother's fair beauty and as much—and no more—of her father's intelligence as it was desirable that a pretty child should have, and to them some good fairy had added something else, the best of all gifts, the power of enjoyment, not just animal enjoyment of good health and good spirits but that authentic love of life that sees good days.

What a dimple! It was years since Mère Madeleine had set eyes on a child, though she had prayed for them so unceasingly.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

To trust who our child is, and not who we think he should be or what the world wants him to be—that perhaps is the single greatest gift a parent can give.

you're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child.

Without a nap break, the homeostatic pressure continues building until the end of the day, growing in intensity, so that a child becomes overtired, wired, and unable to stop the explosion. The result is an intense bedtime battle with a cranky, overtired child who won't fall asleep no matter how tired he is.

Another way to help an active child slow down to allow tiredness to set in is to use a relaxation technique such as massage or yoga.