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Child Quotes (page 19)

James A. Baldwin quote: "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a..."
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. James A. Baldwin
Gaston Bachelard quote: "Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that..."
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. Gaston Bachelard
Red Auerbach quote: "To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child..."
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. Red Auerbach
Thomas Bailey Aldrich quote: "There must be such a thing as a child with average ability,..."
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Alfred Adler quote: "We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will..."
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. Alfred Adler
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry. Virginia Woolf
Cormac McCarthy quote: "This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of..."
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job. Cormac McCarthy
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips."Are you dying for him?" she whispered."And his wife and child. Hush! Yes."Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?"Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last. Charles Dickens
Raising her arms, she defied Heaven. 'So,' she cried, 'you prefer your God to me? You think he is stronger than I am. You think he will love you better than I would? Ah, what a child you are! Do stop talking such twaddle. What we are going to do is go back to the garden together, and love each other, be happy and free, for that is life. Emile Zola
When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around... Anne Lamott
When I try to classify my earliest When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy. Helen Keller
The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust. Herman Hesse
I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. Stanislaw Lem
If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same vein, a vein I had struck when I was a child and went down in the street for the first time alone and there frozen into the dirty ice of the gutter lay a dead cat, the first time I had looked at death and grasped it. From that moment I knew what it was to be isolated: every object, every living thing and every dead thing led its independent... Henry Miller
It says that Moon Child's power ends here. She is the only one who can never set foot in this place. She cannot penetrate to the center of A U R Y N, because she cannot cast off her own self. Michael Ende

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