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Quotes About Child

Big budget. Really? If you are in a horror flick, it's almost certainly alien or satanic in nature. But it's more likely that you've made the common mistake of misdiagnosing a "psychological thriller" as a horror movie. If so, heed this advice: If you're looking for your child, he/she probably never existed. Also: your husband did it.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)
~ Seymour Simon
His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life, that was criminal enough, but life was a sentence more easily served by fools.
~ Shalom Auslander
I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.
~ Shan Sa
I must go live at the ends of the earth and have my child there while I wait for Min and Jing to be freed. That happy day will come: two men making their way towards a little cottage lost in the open countryside. The door opens . . .
~ Shan Sa
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
~ Shania Twain
I was like that for the first few months. Then I came back to reality and realized that if I was going to remain sane, I needed to let the poor child out of my arms every now and then. It's working out and we're all much happier.
~ Shannon Guymon
A heart is a heart in a child or a man.
~ Shannon Hale
I knew full well that Lane considered himself more family than servant to my uncle, and that my uncle felt the same; the only real question was who considered himself the father and who the child.
~ Sharon Cameron
Dr Leila Kheirandish-Gozal puts it this way: 'Just imagine, someone says to your child "wake up! wake up! wake up!" five times an hour. That's what happens in sleep apnoea, every time an apnoea happens. Every night a child is not treated, is a very big problem
~ Sharon Moore
She almost laughed. "I think you're a man who gathers up power like a child gathers up wildflowers in the woods."   "Responsibility, maybe," he said. "Not necessarily power."   "Harder to gather handfuls of lake water or rain," she said.   "I know," he said. "I don't expect to be able to harvest you.
~ Sharon Shinn
The conversation went on for another half hour, before this man's girlfriend, who had not said much of anything until then, remarked, Being a woman, you can't just say you don't want a child. You have to have some big plan or idea of what you're going to do instead. And it better be something great. And you had better be able to tell it convincingly - before it even happens - what the arc of your life will be.
~ Sheila Heti
So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.
~ Nia Long
Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
~ Heraclitus
What is timea November leaf a child's vacillating mouth a rose a left-over, half-drunk glass of water.
~ İlhan Berk
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
~ Kailash Satyarthi
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
~ Norman Podhoretz
The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
~ Fanny Crosby
I saw what a child must love, I saw what love might have done had we loved in time.
~ Mary Oliver
No, it's the situation that makes it so good: the mute father trying to teach his child about love.
~ Mary Rodgers
these are my enticements, and they are sufficent to conquer all fear and danger or death... with the induction of the joy of a child feels when embarks a little boat.
~ Mary Shelley
a child fairer than a pictured cherub - a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.
~ Mary Shelley
I have heard that the sight of the dead has confirmed materialists in their belief. I ever felt otherwise. Was that my child—that moveless decaying inanimation? My child was enraptured by my caresses; his dear voice cloathed with meaning articulations his thoughts, otherwise inaccessible; his smile was a ray of the soul, and the same soul sat upon its throne in his eyes. I turn from this mockery of what he was.
~ Mary Shelley (Author)
The brutal campaign of mass sterilisation, forced abortion and infanticide was exacerbated by the voluntary murder of baby girls on a genocidal scale as parents tried to ensure that their one legal child was a boy. Fertility fell, but not much faster than it would have done if a policy of economic development, public health and education had been adopted instead. What
~ Matt Ridley