1,512 Quotes About Child

A person gets old not when he reaches old age, but, when he stops being a child.

What is a child but two strands of data ploughing into each other in the dark cosmos of a woman's body

Dad kept saying that nothing in the world could be compared with the pain of losing a child. He said that he would not wish even the worst person in the entire universe to see the funeral of his own child. I didn’t fully understand the meaning of those words until I became a mother myself.

Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.

From depth of womb, the child come forth at birth to discover the treasures of the world.

Marian, in her boy’s clothing, sat astride a fallen treetrunk near the Trysetell Tree, her eyes fixed on Robin, who stood perfectly still, waiting. He looked at her, smiling the smile Dummy had noticed before whenever he was in danger, as if he were living entirely in that moment of time without thought for the past or future, and was thoroughly enjoying himself.” “Gilbert wrapped Jehan in a cloak of Lincoln green and laid him tenderly in the Oratory, heaping the bright snow about him.

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.And now, in this darkness, I fear nothing. If you were to leave me here, I would feel nothing. I would walk as I am walking now. As a man, you can't know what I mean by what I say.You can't know a woman's vulnerability. You can't know the sense of power that belongs to me now.

My mortal enemy is not the mother of my child, Harbinger,” the king replied, making a sound that could pass as either a grunt or a titter.

When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you’re left with is a stunned bitterness at the realisation that you’re just the same as everybody else.