Top 56 Hurt My Child Quotes
#1. To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.
David Soul
#2. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-
great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#3. If you think about a young child trying to learn to walk, that child will fall down and hurt itself hundreds of times. But at no point does that child ever stop and think, "Oh, I guess walking just isn't for me. I'm not good at it." Avoiding
Mark Manson
#4. He had been so many things. Seductive as silver and deadly as a cobra. And vulnerable like a hurt child underneath it all.
L.J.Smith
#5. I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.
James Lee Burke
#6. I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
Jean Rhys
#7. Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.
Shaun Hick
#8. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child.
Brandon Sanderson
#9. It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.
Albion Fellows Bacon
#10. Negative words considered dangerous because it would hurt the child. Children will record clearly last words were spoken so that the child will be as pronounced. Moreover, speech is prayer, especially if it comes from the mouth of a mother.
Feel Cozy
#11. Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola, we contribute to a culture of panic and ignorance.
Ann Brasco
#12. Break the Shell": "Child, it's time to break the shell Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.
India.Arie
#13. Mothers seem to have an infinite capacity to withstand hurt from their children. All they see is their pain and I think they feel responsible for it, as if it is their fault that the child in question is feeling so bad and acting so selfishly -- and thus the very least they can do is take it.
Belinda Jones
#14. Ultimately of course, parents must take responsibility for their children's health, .. Our message must be: What you don't know about your children's health insurance options can hurt them. It's up to you to find out if your child is eligible for this health insurance.
Hillary Clinton
#15. There's more God in one hurt child than in all the religions humans ever created.
Martha N. Beck
#16. If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it.
Bryan Kest
#17. I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.
Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
#18. 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
#19. The ear doctor smiled reassuringly and spoke the lie for which doctors should be immediately jailed (time of incarceration to be doubled when the lie is told to a child): Relax, Stevie, this won't hurt.
Stephen King
#20. I just want not to be hurt by him. I want it to be like it was when I was a child, when you thought the day you got married you lived happily ever after.
Fay Weldon
#21. It shouldn't hurt to be a child.
Jan Hunt
#22. People break all the time, no lie there and when that wretched break happens something is usually lost, left behind confused or some is hurt, a member of the family, a child, pure and innocent of the cruel world, dangerous adult men and women.
Abigail George
#23. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.
Denis Johnson
#24. I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.
Leslie Banks
#25. Are you happy?' he repeated quietly.
...
'Wouldn't you like to know?'
...
'Yes, or I would not ask. But apparently the child has returned and I shan't have my answer.' He moved away.
She wanted to shout that she was not a child but a woman, and the woman hurt.
Katharine Ashe
#26. If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.
Dan Fogelberg
#27. I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said,
'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!
Gina Sheridan
#28. I don't think you understand what levels or what fears until you have a child of your own. I mean, I've never loved someone so much and I've never been so afraid in my life. And the truth is I would kill someone, whoever tried to hurt him. I would. I have no doubt about it.
Maria Bello
#29. She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
Kristin Hannah
#30. Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.
John Rhys-Davies
#31. You could try," Reacher said. "But you'd get hurt. You're out of your league. You're up against something you never saw before."
"You have a mighty high opinion of yourself."
Reacher nodded at Neagley. "I'm talking about her. I'm just here to clear up the mess.
Lee Child
#32. It doesn't matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you've started to leave, you will run your whole life.
Charlotte Eriksson
#33. Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#34. Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that they incur the wrath of Almighty God, who declared, "If men ... hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her ... he shall be surely punished."
Russell M. Nelson
#35. So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by kissing it and putting a Band-Aid on it, but not so with the pain of sexual abuse.
Erin Merryn
#36. Aunt Mary, you hurt my feelings." "Well, child, I'm glad to learn your feelings are hurt," returned the aunt. "I'm sure, Carley, that underneath all this--this blase ultra something you've acquired, there's a real heart. Only you must hurry and listen to it--or--
Zane Grey
#38. On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.
Marcia Sirota
#39. I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!
John Hurt
#40. What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.
Maggie Q
#41. She was a thinking child, and worked this out. It hurt her, unlike most knowledge, which was strength and pleasure.
A.S. Byatt
#42. Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody ... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
Annie Lennox
#43. Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck
#44. You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel.
Jan Strnad
#45. Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son ... these aren't tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.
Dan Pearce
#46. She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!"
"Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!
Mildred D. Taylor
#47. Your child is hurt. How quickly can you make it better?
What if you can't?
Jodi Picoult
#48. It was a phone call she didn't want to make. She didn't want to hurt him. Whatever words she gave him, it would take being a daddy away from him.
Crissi Langwell
#49. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.
Lynne Stewart
#50. I lost my own daughter and I'll never have another. The hurt doesn't go away, no matter what you tell yourself. It's there day and night. I'd have killed any man who touched her. Why should I stand for such talk about another man's child, if I wouldn't have stood for it about my own?
Charles Todd
#51. Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.
Max Lucado
#52. I didn't want to invade his
privacy; I didn't want to fight with him; I didn't want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wanted
him to be a child forever." She glanced up, crying harder now. "But you can't do that, if you're a
parent. Because part of your job is letting them grow up.
Jodi Picoult
#53. How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?
Juanita Moore
#55. The only moral lesson which is suited for a child
the most important lesson for every time of life
is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#56. It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.
Allen Iverson