Top 100 Quotes About You Child
#1. I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#3. Oh stop being so stubborn! You want him to be right, I can tell, I can read you, child. Because if he's right and Imogen's a liar that means you can jump back on that Italian sausage straight away.
Billy London
#4. If Allah has willed it that way ... He must have better plans for you child ...
K. Hari Kumar
#5. Level with you child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
#6. What you could learn from me, you child, you have learned." "Oh no," cried Goldmund, "we didn't become friends to end it now! What sort of friendship would that be, that reached its goal after a short distance and then simply stopped? Are you tired of me? Have you no more affection for me?
Hermann Hesse
#7. They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman.
Edwidge Danticat
#8. What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
Frank Herbert
#9. A farmer slaughters his cattle because he must eat to survive, but he also protects the herd from thieves and predators. If you leave the pen, the wolves will find you, child.
Rachel Vincent
#10. Is there anything more solid, more right, than knowing you child was where she ought to be?
Jodi Picoult
#11. You can't see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret.
The god of money was also the god of spies.
Marie Rutkoski
#12. What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.
Bob Weir
#13. I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.
Pearl S. Buck
#14. The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current. Go well, Lyra; bless you, child, bless you. Keep your own counsel.
Philip Pullman
#15. Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child.
Van Morrison
#16. The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.
Marlee Matlin
#17. The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
Jourdan Dunn
#19. ("Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")
Joan Didion
#20. Stretch out your hand to Him like a little child to his father so that He may lead you on.
Francis De Sales
#21. As with all my children, you must find your own path, and through that discovery, you will decide what each earth child must ultimately decide-whether she chooses chaos or love.
P.C. Cast
#22. Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
Orson Scott Card
#23. Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".
Robin Williams
#24. In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too
Usain Bolt
#25. I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#26. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama
#27. If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
Elizabeth Lesser
#28. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.
Karen Maitland
#29. If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.
Michael Winterbottom
#30. Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention?
Rick Riordan
#31. If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.
Steven Millhauser
#32. 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
#33. I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
Orson Welles
#34. Is it possible that by choosing to spend your money on such things rather than contributing to an aid agency, you are leaving a child to die, a child you could have saved?
Anonymous
#35. Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.
Richie Sambora
#36. Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember ... a child is listening.
Mary Griffith
#37. He keeps his arms away from me, but eventually, holding him, I feel him tuck his chin over my head. Then he whispers, "You're the sweetest girl, the best girl, I ever kissed, Carrie West," and rubs his face into my hair like a child, breathing deep.
Mary Ann Rivers
#38. 'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me.
Wyclef Jean
#39. Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.
Bow Wow
#40. Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.
Frederick Lenz
#41. You see, a story is not just a thing told to a child before sleep. A story is control.
Roshani Chokshi
#42. Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'
Tyra Banks
#43. You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
Lloyd Alexander
#45. People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne
#46. In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. Goddess" he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child." Will I see you again?"
Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. "In the face of every woman you meet
Laurell K. Hamilton
#48. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children - ?" "We
Henry James
#49. You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.
Harvey Fierstein
#50. Once you do have a child, you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends, and it should be. I was really worried about even going there at all.
Matt Berninger
#51. Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.
Florence Littauer
#52. Sweet. You did it, Pat. I thank you. My libido thanks you and my manly bits that the ladies love, thank you as well." Shawn grinned.
Ginny Atkinson
#53. You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
Penn Badgley
#54. When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.
Ricky Williams
#55. I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.
Charles Bronfman
#56. But it had another layer to it, because imitating crass people was kind of liberating - like pretending to be a child or a crazy person. It was something you could do only with someone you really trusted, someone who knew how capable and good you actually were.
Miranda July
#57. Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.
Autumn Reeser
#58. And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
Oscar Wilde
#59. We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.
Serina Hartwell
#60. Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.
Maya Angelou
#61. Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.
Charles Spurgeon
#62. Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.
J. A. Spender
#63. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
Ellen Gilchrist
#64. Because I don't have a child and as much as you can sort of imagine it it's always nice to hear from all different walks of life what motherhood is like and what that feels like. And particularly young mothers.
Abbie Cornish
#65. Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
John Mason Brown
#67. Scorpius: Still, if I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.
Albus: No offense, but I'd choose someone massive and really good at magic.
J.K. Rowling
#68. You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.
Melinda Gates
#69. If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child
Julia Child
#70. The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#71. You still think like a child, don't you? Clay figurines sunk to their ankles in the sand, one here, one there, standing just so. One says this, the other says that, then you reach down and rearrange them accordingly. Scenes, vistas, stark with certainty.
Steven Erikson
#72. I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?
David Sedaris
#73. It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
Tracey Ullman
#74. 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
#75. I ... understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.
Jodi Picoult
#76. What kind of love demands the life of another? A child at that?"
"Danish love, my sweet. Can't you smell it?
A.J. Hartley
#77. You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.
Cassandra Clare
#78. Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
Arthur Golden
#79. I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson
#80. Education is the best gift you can ever give to your child. Educate your child wisely and smartly.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#81. I have thought you could not give everything to your books and also to your children, so for a long time, I thought if I had a child or a family, I'd think, 'How would I support them?' because basically I would stop writing.
Sonya Hartnett
#82. Forgive yourself for the child you were unable to save, Darius, and praise God for the many who are alive today because of your actions.
Karen Witemeyer
#83. The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
Alia Shawkat
#84. I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
Malcolm McDowell
#85. If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'
Brian Andreas
#87. Congratulations to your mom and dad for birth of a sweet child!
Sorry that I couldn't wish them when you were born.
Hasil Paudyal
#88. Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?
Juniper: I can't be bothered.
Monica Furlong
#89. This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.
Faye Snyder
#90. Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I want?' And 'do I want a boy or a girl?' I didn't realize you could place orders, I honestly didn't realize it was like a drive-through, that you could talk to a little electronic voice.
Jennifer Aniston
#91. that is the rub of being a parent. You have infinite capacity to forgive, and infinite capacity to grieve every time your child stumbles." "I
Molly Jameson
#92. I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.
Karrine Steffans
#93. In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
B.F. Skinner
#94. I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight.
Toni Morrison
#95. So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won't be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.
Dan Millman
#96. If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.
J.C. Ryle
#97. To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.
John Rhys-Davies
#98. Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her
and you ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing
as he knew of me
that he will protect you with his life. I love you forever, Brianna. I know whose child you truly are. With all my love, Dad.
Diana Gabaldon
#99. I said: All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant and I don't want the child to be born with ...
Dashiell Hammett
#100. I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.
Eva LaRue
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