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Child Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not…
- No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
- ...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the…
- If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse
- The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.…
- Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
- Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless…
- The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
- That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
- Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the…
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky… — Joyce Banda
- It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into… — Tyra Banks