Child Mystery Quotes

#1. People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's
mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

Don DeLillo

#2. Isn't it strange how one child can be so lucky, when not a stone's throw away another child's life has taken quite the opposite direction?

Helen Laycock

#3. Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.

Celia Conrad

#5. What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

Lee Child

#6. The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything.

Darrell Calkins

#7. Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

K. Lamb

#8. What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?

Noorilhuda

#9. There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer ... the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

A.B. Simpson

#10. I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

David Lynch

#11. He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Noorilhuda

#12. The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child's heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.

Michael Jackson

#13. Olivia was a quiet child, but her lack of response was uncharacteristic. She stared at her mother with wide, frightened eyes, her mouth open, a hollow cave devoid of words. Something was wrong. Very wrong.

Caroline Mitchell

#14. Even in death, her mother was winning.

Noorilhuda

#15. The preoccupation of Rossellini when dealing with the face of the child in Allemania Anno Zero is the exact opposite of that of Kuleshov with the close-up of Mozhukhin. Rossellini is concerned to preserve its mystery.

Andre Bazin

#16. How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

Noorilhuda

#17. Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand.

Aleister Crowley

#18. The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery, their imagination leaps readily to the marvel, that the King Himself should inhabit a little child's heart.

Charlotte Mason

#19. In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Dean Koontz

#20. Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

Francine Prose

#21. Mysterious like the moon,
she would delight you in her glow,
her light alone can make you question yourself..
&
who was she?
She will never let you know.

Nikki Rowe

#22. You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the result is the opposite of what you hope and dream for. This seemed so unfair.

Jeffery Deaver

#23. As a child I would play with such imagination that the 'real' world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.

Fennel Hudson

#24. A woman, big with child, sat patiently at the curb in a stiff wooden chair. She sat in the hot sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.

Betty Smith

#25. Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

Fulton J. Sheen

#26. In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and ... mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Bill Cosby

#27. I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Noorilhuda

#28. The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

Lee Child

#29. Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible.

Diane Capri

#30. She, the first-born daughter of water, faced
darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her
lover and raised light as her child. Man that
shit was wild. You should have seen how
they ran. She woke up in an alley with a gun
in her hand. Tupac in lotus form, Ennis' blood
on his hands.

Saul Williams

#31. There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

Mark Lanegan

#32. I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#33. If God wanted us in the ocean, he wouldn't have made the land.

Lauren Child

#34. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

#35. Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong.

John Steinbeck

#36. Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

Lee Child

#37. Holy theology arises from knees bent before the mystery of the divine child in the stable. Without the holy night, there is no theology.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#38. People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?

Jan Ellison

#39. It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.

Charles De Lint

#40. A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark. What? Why? How? I never cease to marvel at the recurring miracle of growth, to be fascinated by the mystery and wonder of this brave enthusiasm.

Victoria Wagner

#41. Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed:
A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet.
It tries to find a method of traveling faster than walking.

Toba Beta

#42. The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

Rabindranath Tagore

#43. It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

Daphne Du Maurier

#44. She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.

Noorilhuda

#45. Don't worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don't forget who you are

Catrina Burgess

#46. Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.

Ray Bradbury

#47. If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

Noorilhuda

#48. People never think of a child as being a monster, because if they did, they would never be able to sleep at night. Children are where lies peoples hopes, dreams, innocence... Not where lies murder.

Chelsea Radojcic

#49. Study is the child of silence and mystery.

Henri Murger

#50. Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Greg Child

#51. Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Noorilhuda

#52. But Erin let it slide. The child was only four years old; she had a whole lifetime to learn about sadness. Today was for Dalmatians, ice cream and new dolls.

Carl Hiaasen

#53. The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand.

Louis Agassiz

#54. He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Noorilhuda

#55. The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

Noorilhuda

#56. The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#57. I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out.

Charlotte Eriksson

#58. He touches his wife's smooth back as she sleeps her warm sleep and dreams her own dreams; he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be grownup and able to consider the mystery of childhood . . . its beliefs and desires.

Stephen King

#59. As a child I simply did not notice whether a movie was in color or not. The movies themselves were such an overwhelming mystery that if they wanted to be in black and white, that was their business.

Roger Ebert

#60. Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to.

Carew Papritz