458 quotes found
“Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and to acquire skills and aptitudes for dealing with the situations that threaten to overwhelm it... ...”
“Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.”
“I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.”
“Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It's meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles”
“My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.”
“There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.”
“Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.”
“I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I d...”
“Father never approved of my toysSaw them as child's playthingsI was a childThey were my worldI ruled thereAnd he stepped on themDestroying themAnd in turnDestroyed meI should have been left to play...”
“You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.”
“It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone sai...”
“There is something about being loved and protected by a parent (or guardian) knowing that I can be loved for who I am, not what I can do, or might one day become. Unfortunately its not usually like...”
“Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish.”
“Love had still seemed like such a paltry thing in the face of all my doubts then, much the way it felt now. David had worries my love couldnt touch, fears my love couldnt easily dispel. My love see...”
“Even though our journey as parents of a medically fragile child began with emotional turmoil, it has since become a purposeful odyssey that brings meaning and depth to our lives. This is the road w...”
“Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible.”
“Education is the best gift my parent gave me.”
“... education is the second food a parent can give a child.”
“You are a child of the universeCome to choose how to live here.You are a child of the universeLoved beyond measure.”
“Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!”
