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Quotes About Child

Ulysses, which was an extremely difficult book by James Joyce. Every single other child in the class, when asked what they would like to do more of, chose creative writing.
~ Scarlett Thomas
The longer you go to church the easier it is to forget one of Jesus's greatest lessons: the kingdom of heaven belongs to children.6 To really understand God, it's best to strip everything away, to get rid of all the distractions and see God as a child might.
~ Scott Douglas
I shall give you a little prophecy, Locke Lamora, as best as I have seen it. 'Three things you must take up and three things you must lose before you die: a key, a crown, a child.' Patience pushed her hood up over her head. 'You will die when a silver rain falls.
~ Scott Lynch
Our hope, and it's a sad hope, is that... well, I mean we need a tip. That's why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip.
~ Scott Peterson
When they [the Magi] saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. (Matt. 2:10–11)
~ Scotty Smith
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but God's child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. (Gal. 4:4–7 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth. And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom and the grace of God was on him. (Luke 2:39–40 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
~ Seal
Afterwards a boy-child was born to Shield, a cub in the yard, a comfort sent by God...
~ Seamus Heaney
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
~ Barbara Bush
I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!
~ Brooke Burke
I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.
~ Kelly Preston
Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'
~ Robert Winston
[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
~ Sigmund Freud
From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
~ Susie Orbach
Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart
~ Terry Pratchett
The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
~ Theresa May
When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
~ Warren Farrell
My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
~ Katey Sagal
A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.
~ Mary Jo Bang
I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.
~ Melvin Burgess
Poor little doggie, you saved HIS child!
~ Mark Twain
What did God really know about brothers (or for that matter sisters)? He was after all an only child and before it all an equally lonely father.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
How much [vastly {immensely (unfathomably) tremendously}...] Anwar loves [t]his child. It continues to take him by surprise [even when she confounds him with the havoc of her room {for example} which she will proudly describe {defend!} as clean {those beautiful messes (beautiful even today)} even as {in the next moment} she will astonish Anwar with her fearless interest in life {despite the harrowing blows life continues to deliver her (and so delivers to Anwar...)}].
~ Mark Z. Danielewski