Child Quotes - page 96

Child of Hades, what more could I do to you? You are perfect! So much sorrow and pain!' Nico gasped. His eyes flew open. (Rick Riordan)
My son Asclepius had become the god of medicine by the time he was fifteen, and I couldn't have been happier for him. It left me time for my other interests. Besides, it's every god's dream to have a child who grows up to be a doctor. View quote
Rick Riordan
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers. View quote
Rick Riordan
My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school. View quote
Richard Flanagan
[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child. View quote
Robin McKinley
Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that. View quote
Robert Carlyle
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through. View quote
Robert Carlyle
The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight. View quote
Roger Moore
The early socialization of a child is crucial. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
An adult is just a child who started to rot. View quote
Rene Barjavel
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth? (Sy Montgomery)
I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything. View quote
Solange Knowles
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. View quote
Stacy Schiff
Of course, laws weren't always just. Some rules outlawed a thing because it was intrinsically bad: child molestation, say. Other rules made harmless activities crimes only because someone wished them to be so. Take cohabitation on a religious holiday. On some worlds, it was legal on one day, illegal the next, and on the third, okay once again. Khadaji could see no moral dilemma there. View quote
Steve Perry
As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords. View quote
Stuart Wilde
You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for. View quote
Stuart Wilde
I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy. View quote
Susan Orlean
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child. View quote
Tim Burton
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. View quote
Tim Burton
You're always asking yourself, are you doing the best for your child? And other parents let you know if you're not, just not in a direct way. There's a sense of competition, which is ridiculous because you know deep down you're all suffering. (Tom Ellis)
isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. View quote
Anthony Doerr
As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life. View quote
Tracy Morgan
When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it. View quote
Tracy Morgan
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad. View quote
Fannie Flagg