Child Quotes (page 43)

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• drinking
• mother father
• simplicity

His father cultivated art and self-realisation; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinth and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• beautiful
• age
• earth

Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'This poet lies: Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.' So should my papers yellow'd with their age Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue, And your true rights be term'd a... William Shakespeare

• she
• anything
• knowingly

Is there anything more solid, more right, than knowing you child was where she ought to be? Jodi Picoult

• thinking
• pretty
• adulting

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult. Arundhati Roy

• philosophical
• words
• relatives

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. Albert Einstein

• love
• heart
• pleases

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward. L. Frank Baum

• life
• childhood
• giving

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. Gerald Durrell

• music
• children
• melted

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one. Michael Jackson

• drawing
• struggle
• you me

The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. Emily Bronte

• manly
• happy
• mother child

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Oscar Wilde

• old
• old year
• year

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. H. L. Mencken

• moments
• giving
• evening

Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn. Judy Blume

• love
• god
• wellness

There have been times," Father Mark admitted, "when I feared that God would turn out to be like my maternal grandmother [...] Ours was a large family, and every Christmas my grandmother gave gifts of cash in varying amounts, claiming she was rewarding her grandchildren according to how much they loved her. She swore she could look right into our hearts and know. One child would get a crisp fifty-dollar bill, the next a crumpled single. No two gifts were ever in the same amount."Miles nodded.... Richard Russo

• help
• manly
• helpful

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child. James C. Dobson

• great
• work
• greatness

And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his? C. S. Lewis