Child - Quotes
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being.
If a child is old enough to be sent on errands without supervision, he`s not totally a child any longer.
Love? Well, yes. There are so many kinds. There’s eros: simplest and most transient of all. There’s philia: friendship; loyalty. There’s storge: the affection a child gives its parents. There’s thelema: the desire to perform. Then there’s agape: platonic love; for a friend; for a world; love for a stranger you’ve never met; the love of all humanity.
Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan`s power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God`s child, and that we are God`s children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
There`s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn`t mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you`re standing on the other side.
A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
Why deny it. As a child I had the usual foolish dreams. For instance, I wanted to be a pilot, an engine driver, or failing that, an engine. Sometimes I even fantasized that when I grew up I`d become the Vienna Express.
You don`t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents always wave back.