Quotes About Child

In a curious way, it was her fearfulness that persuaded me that I must retain control of myself, rather as a mother will feel obliged to put a brave face on things in order to calm her frightened child.

It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man.

There was something in this girl he could never grasp, an inner life inscrutable to him. He was in awe of the child's flights of fancy, her insatiable passion always to be running off somewhere, her active inner life.

But it's the nature—no, the duty—of a child to grow up and leave you. Doesn't seem fair, does it? The person you love most in the world is destined to leave you and break your heart.

I don't want her to feel as if she's responsible for my happiness. Good lord, who would wish that on a child?

D'Avray, her father, and I had met before in Algeria. He was dying now. He left the child on his death-bed to me.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Her whole body sang with a sick gladness that this was any child but hers. It was as immediate and involuntary as her heartbeat, and in her next breath, shame crept in. Not Shelby, thank God, thank God, but this girl was someone's.

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.

Miriam wrung her hands, and said, "Your child dreads to become alive and real because he fears that in doing so, the risk of annihilation is immediately potentiated.

Your child dreads to become alive and real because he fears that in doing so, the risk of annihilation is immediately potentiated.

No one who has private thoughts going on in his own head is quite sure of their not being overheard. Any child knows that.

Fear of failure chips away at self-confidence until there is no heart to step into new territory. One needs the mind of a child to forget what happened an hour ago.

Night goes away, a black bull-- body heavy with mourning and fear and mystery-- it has been bellowing horribly, monstrously, in genuine fear of all the dead; and day arrives, a young child who wants trust, and love, and jokes, --a child who somewhere far away, in secret places where what ends meets what is starting, has been playing a moment on some meadow or other of light and darkness with the bull who is running away...

Presumably the child brain is something like a notebook as one buys it from the stationer's," he wrote. "Rather little mechanism, and lots of blank sheets.

Current youth policy and parenting advice teeter between high-anxiety child protection and high-anger child punishment. It would appear that children are fragilely innocent until the moment they step over some line, at which point they become instantly, irredeemably wicked.

Repetition is the mute language of the abused child.

Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.

Pearsall also describes an eight-year-old girl who received the heart of a murdered child. After the transplant, the girl started having nightmares about the man who had killed her donor. Her mother then took her to a therapist. Details she reported in therapy sessions were so precise—time, weapon, the murderer's clothes, crime scene—that they notified the police. Astonishingly, the girl's information led police to the murderer.