458 quotes found
“But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in t...”
“Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.”
“Children see beauty in everything.”
“He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are m...”
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before its damaged for ever and whats done can never be undone.”
“She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingnue.”
“Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.”
“-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I re...”
“when you help a child develop their talents, you are creating a better tomorrow.”
“In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.”
“Rejecting your gay or transgender child won't make them straight. It will only mean you will lose them.”
“No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child”
“Water is like a child, it always wants to be in motion.”
“When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.”
“Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.”
“I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge”
“Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.”
“I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hip...”
“Memories particularly of when they werent being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and youre-going-to-be-late, ...”
“Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less alive. Her life seemed so small and crumpled you could shoot it through a stra...”
