Top 100 Heart Of A Child Quotes

#1. I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#2. Every adult has the heart of a child. Not every adult listens deep enough.

Matthew Donnelly

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#3. Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

Catherine Doherty

Heart Of A Child Quotes #77219
#4. A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

Vance Havner

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#5. A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.

Mencius

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#6. I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Heart Of A Child Quotes #367609
#7. No one knows,
the heart of a child,
how it grows
until it is too late.

Hilda Doolittle

Heart Of A Child Quotes #368311
#8. She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed.
- Kaia Skyhawk

Gena Showalter

Heart Of A Child Quotes #443755
#9. Parents who struggle to get a witness of the Savior into the heart of a child will be helped as they seek for a way to bring the words and the spirit of the Book of Mormon into the home and all the lives in their family.

Henry B. Eyring

Heart Of A Child Quotes #595819
#10. You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good.

Carolyn Haywood

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#11. There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

Hugh Prather

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#12. The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.

Paul Hoffman

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#13. Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him (Proverbs 22:15).

Tedd Tripp

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#14. Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.

Soyen Shaku

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#15. The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing blocks of desire, philosophy, or religion ... the person who has the mind and heart of a child. One must simply know nature ... real nature, not the one we think we know!

Masanobu Fukuoka

Heart Of A Child Quotes #1409676
#16. Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros

Stuart Briscoe

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#17. I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch

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#18. A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#19. Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

Harlan Coben

Heart Of A Child Quotes #7306
#20. Children are touched by heaven - their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children

Nadia Hashimi

Heart Of A Child Quotes #18669
#21. My heart longs for the day when there will be no more suffering, no more hatred or violence, only love and a child will be able to grow up in a world without ever having to know the pain and anguish of an empty belly.

Heather Wolf

Heart Of A Child Quotes #42824
#22. Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.

Roberta Gellis

Heart Of A Child Quotes #43695
#23. A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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#24. His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.

Elizabeth Spencer

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#25. Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

Takuan Soho

Heart Of A Child Quotes #71434
#26. The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.

Rick Dees

Heart Of A Child Quotes #93398
#27. Since presumably the world exists for God's enjoyment, not in any simple sense, of course, but as you enjoy the being of a child even when he is in every way a thorn in your heart.

Marilynne Robinson

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#28. If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#29. Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Robert MacNeil

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#30. It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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#31. Friendship is like a stubborn child who is playing hide and seek with your life. You have to find him at the darkest places of your heart in difficult times. And when you find the child; his smile will light up the darkness of your life.

Sandeep Sharma

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#32. The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

Stephen Covey

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#33. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

Benjamin Franklin

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#34. Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.

Marquis De Sade

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#35. They looked like scarecrows,' Slim said of his troops. 'But they looked like soldiers, too.' He also recalled the heart-rending sight of a four-year-old child in Imphal trying to spoon-feed her dead mother from a tin of evaporated milk.

Andrew Roberts

Heart Of A Child Quotes #265714
#36. When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.

Michael Greger

Heart Of A Child Quotes #273430
#37. As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

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#38. The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

Bryant McGill

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#39. Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.

Henry B. Eyring

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#40. I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.

Pope Francis

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#41. Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

John Ruskin

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#42. I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

Pam Grier

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#43. The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar?s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.

Sathya Sai Baba

Heart Of A Child Quotes #374237
#44. Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?" ... "We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us

Isobelle Carmody

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#45. Guarding your heart is no different from buckling a beautiful child into an infant seat, or placing a seatbelt across your own chest before pulling out of your driveway.

Suzanne Eller

Heart Of A Child Quotes #396523
#46. Through the eyes of a child, imagination is born. Always stay young at heart!

Sheila Renee Parker

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#47. I, who even as a child had been so distrustful of music (not because it took me out of myself more powerfully than anything else, but because I had noticed that it did not put me back where it had found me, but left me deeper down, somewhere in the heart of things unfinished) ...

Rainer Maria Rilke

Heart Of A Child Quotes #416204
#48. At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

Queen Elizabeth II

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#49. Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Carl Sandburg

Heart Of A Child Quotes #431237
#50. This book is not about "homeschooling" at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a child in the heart of the family given to that child by his Creator.

Elizabeth Foss

Heart Of A Child Quotes #431563
#51. As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam's rib. Now, at the other end of his life, these decades later, he knows it was because the rib is close to the heart.

Nadeem Aslam

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#52. How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

Anne Rice

Heart Of A Child Quotes #446260
#53. Watch the thoughts, because in your watching them, they disappear. Then watch your emotions, sentimentalities; by your watching, they also disappear. Then your heart is as innocent as that of a child, and your head is as great a genius as Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Aristotle. But

Osho

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#54. Birthdays;They never cease to exist, and like birthdays you will never cease to exist in my heart

Xela Ffonrims

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#55. My arm clutched one of my other pillows to my chest like a child with a teddy bear, a soul pressing its missing lover to her bosom.

Alyse M. Gardner

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#56. But Tom was not thinking about magic or struggle or the rest of his journey.

He was enjoying the game and the bright sun, and his heart was a child's heart.

But then, all grownup's hearts are children's hearts inside, if you can only find the catch that opens them.

Mike Carey

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#57. Maybe from now on the bittersweet memory of a child lost would be only the sweet memory of a child loved. And maybe, henceforth, it would not be a memory so heavy that it oppressed the heart.

Dean Koontz

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#58. Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.

Truman Capote

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#59. Allow yourself to love him, Nicole. That's one of the greatest gifts a mother can give to her child, you know. To love her child's father. I firmly believe that once Gabe's heart heals, he'll discover that you and your child already have a place there.

Emily March

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#60. One unforeseen advantage of having a child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

Catherine Sanderson

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#61. Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Pope Francis

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#62. Like the death of a crone in one twin bed as a child is born in the other. Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying.

Sharon Olds

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#63. To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly nothing. On a cellular level, aside from the neurons of my cerebral cortex and a few other stranglers in my heart and eyes, I am not him.

Thomm Quackenbush

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#64. Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

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#65. In the heart of the God of the universe, each child of his is as necessary to him as the fingers are to the hand.-In the marvelous design of the universe, not even a sparrow can fall to earth meaninglessly ...

Toyohiko Kagawa

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#66. But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible

Adriana Trigiani

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#67. A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

Lydia M. Child

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#68. As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Charles Baudelaire

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#69. Only a child believes his rulers have his best interest at heart," he said. "We would be wise to disabuse ourselves of such illusions.

Julie Wu

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#70. I went to them without fear, child, prepared for a pitched battle, expecting the fierce Watchers, famed for their love of Earth, to defend their families. Yet they stood mute and allowed their loved ones to die. I judged them harshly in my heart for that.

Kirby Crow

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#71. To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

Edward Zwick

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#72. The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

Rosemary Wells

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#73. No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

H.L. Mencken

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#74. I know babe he said, wrapping me in his arms. I could hear the loudly thu-bump of his heart as he picked me up and carried me like a child. And he called me Babe.

Ripley Patton

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#75. Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

Stella Adler

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#76. Selfishness makes Christmas a burden;
Love makes it a delight.
The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.

William Carey Jones

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#77. Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

James Anthony Froude

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#78. When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he will grow up feeling, somewhere deep inside, that he himself doesn't matter.

Jonice Webb

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#79. Home is where your soul feels free.

Emily Nelson

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#80. The beauty with modest smile, whose secrecy of silent love had just been stolen, beamed at this wonderful offer and she replenished herself with his love as a carefree child cossetted with luxurious warmth after a cold shower.

Ashmita Acharya

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#81. When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber

Ikechukwu Izuakor

Heart Of A Child Quotes #755372
#82. The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.

Sherryl Woods

Heart Of A Child Quotes #760304
#83. There is no love like a mother's - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.

Ronald Reagan

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#84. A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

K. Lamb

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#85. Don't mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#86. The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.

Robert Boswell

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#87. It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

Jann Wenner

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#88. My child, never judge a man because of his race. Never. God looks at the heart. So should we. We are all made in God's image.

Robin Lee Hatcher

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#89. It was that she had already fallen in love, and been married, and had a child, and had her heart broken. He had yet to experience any of those things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#90. She wished that when her heart was beating double, she could give one of those hearts to him and then press her ear to his chest and feel it beating.

Lauren DeStefano

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#91. I'm tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I'm tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped out of my chest every damned day. I'm tired of waking up in the morning, and then remembering ...

A.B. Shepherd

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#92. When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

Tracy Morgan

Heart Of A Child Quotes #951597
#93. Like a caring mother
holding and guarding the life
of her only child,
so with a boundless heart
of lovingkindness,
hold yourself and all beings
as your beloved children.

Gautama Buddha

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#94. Jay became an adult. He got a job, married a wife, and they had a child. Now he had so many things to take care! Like all other grown ups, he talked more of being busy than of being happy. He completely forgot the little bird singing beautiful songs in his heart.

Ilchi Lee

Heart Of A Child Quotes #969467
#95. By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

Thomas Wolfe

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#96. I don't love balls and sleeping beauties, that kind of thing. I think the great thing about 'Snow White' is those images have scarred me since I was a child with the Queen, the mirror, the taking of the heart, the huntsman and the enchanted forest.

Rupert Sanders

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#97. I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.

David Duchovny

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#98. A child her wayward pencil drew
On margins of her book;
Garlands of flower, dancing elves,
Bud, butterfly, and brook,
Lessons undone, and plum forgot,
Seeking with hand and heart
The teacher whom she learned to love
Before she knew t'was Art.

Louisa May Alcott

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#99. It is the image of physical brawn, sheer force, and commanding volume we so often associate with might. But I have found the might of an army exists in the faith of a child and in quiet, earnest prayers as well as in the heart of one who loves.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#100. The note of almost unbearable irritation sounding through the deliberately calm tone in which he has just spoken penetrates her child's heart like a cruel needle of ice. Her face falls grotesquely, her mouth trembles, tears - the sudden, despairing tears of a hurt child - fill her eyes to the brim.

Anna Kavan

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