The Stolen Child Quotes

#1. I can't help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.

Kiera Cass

#2. Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. I believe in hope, in what is something called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that's why I write fiction, probaby. It's my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

John Green

#4. Make no mistake, my darling. I am coming for you. I will take you back.

Sanjida Kay

#5. As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.

James Hunter

#6. When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. Aye, but the hand that had murdered had once pressed the mother's breast into the thirsting mouth, had stolen into the father's hand when they went out into the dark. Aye, but the murderer afraid of death had once been a child afraid of the night.

Alan Paton

#8. I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.

Jodi Picoult

#9. You know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don't understand it.

Richard Feynman

#10. The dark edge of the moor and the Cow and Calf rock are crisp against the blue-black sky. I can't see anyone outside, watching us. As I shut the door behind me, I hear a noise. It came from the hall. I feel the hairs rise on the back of my neck.

Sanjida Kay

#11. I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.

Lynn Redgrave

#12. I've had people come up to me, as home viewers, and tell me they were screaming at the TV, yelling at each other, yelling at the contestants.

Howie Mandel

#13. The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and had now come back for her child.

Anne Lamott

#14. On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes framed in embarassingly long lashes) a few times, and they would all faint.

Ilona Andrews

#15. UPON THE ADVICE OF MY ATTORNEY, MY SHIRT BEARS NO MESSAGE AT THIS TIME. - T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

#16. Road accidents, psycho killings, plane crashes abound - we don't know which day will be our last, so why not make today the happiest day and be thankful for all that we have?

Maddy Malhotra

#17. Mum, your heart is the same size as your fist,' she told me once in delight, and we both made our hands into fists and held them against our chests and bumped them together: hands as hearts.

Sanjida Kay

#18. This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Edmund Burke

#19. My child, human love is an infinite resource. No matter how many times it is expended, whether stolen or given away, love can grow again - like a flower from a bulb - and fill your heart.

Brian Herbert

#20. A child's innocence is the one gift, that once stolen, can never be replaced.

Jaeda DeWalt

#21. Where I'm taking you, no one will ever find us. We'll have all the time in the world for you to grow to love me as much as I love you.

Sanjida Kay

#22. I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

Patricia Highsmith

#23. I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.

Keith Donohue

#24. 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

#25. They stole you from me. They took you away for seven years. Your entire lifetime. A life sentence. The waiting has been endless. The watching. The planning. Now, finally, I'm almost ready. I've got a few things to take care of and then we can be reunited.

Sanjida Kay

#26. It's as if he's trodden in my footsteps, seen what I've seen, felt what I've felt, as I've criss-crossed the moors countless times.

Sanjida Kay

#27. We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

William H. Macy

#28. Hello my darling,
I'm your real father. I've been searching for you ever since you were stolen from me. I love you so much.
Daddy

Sanjida Kay

#29. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

Jim Henson

#30. Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great.
You have no power over me

A.C.H. Smith