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Child Quotes (page 39)

Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery. Margaret Mitchell
Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent. Plato
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child. Leo Tolstoy
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies. Simone de Beauvoir
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace. Murray Kempton
Dodie Smith quote: "My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this..."
My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher? Dodie Smith
Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child. Friedrich Nietzsche
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child. Christopher Hitchens
O-90 sat over the notebook, her head leaning toward her left shoulder, and making such an effort that her tongue was pushing her left cheek out. She looked like such a child, so charming. And so I felt good all over, clear, simple... Yevgeny Zamyatin
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and isforever the same. Everything interests me, but nothingholds me. Fernando Pessoa
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age when the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Stephenie Meyer
Shirley Jackson quote: "I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.''I doubt..."
I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.''I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance. Shirley Jackson
Russell Brand quote: "If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you fro life;..."
If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you fro life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child. Russell Brand
Michael Cunningham quote: "I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult."
I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult. Michael Cunningham

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