C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.”
Source: The Complete Alice in Wonderland
“Child of the world,
you are the dream between opposites,
light in the arms of darkness,
chaos folded into order.
The cosmos remembers you.
you live in the silence of the owl,
in the death of stars
you live in the breath where time forgets itself.”
Source: PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE: EXPLORING ONTOLOGY, AESTHETICS AND HERMENEUTICS - A DIALOGUE ON MEANING, TRUTH AND MORALITY
“Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.”
“Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.”
“Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.”
“Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.”
“Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?”
Source: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
“Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.”
“Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.”
“Child-rearing is not some special part of life, set aside for some temporary purpose and put aside at a certain age. It is the principal business of life, the search for the condition that is naturally promised for us by the fact of our life. And we must do it by ourselves, one by one.”
“Child-rearing is notoriously boring, monotonous, and repetitive and yet somehow perpetually changing and intermittent; it can be simultaneously frenetic and eternal.”
Source: Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm
“child sacrifice: (n.) crime of committing children to public education.”
Source: The Angel's Dictionary
“Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.”
“Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government.”
“Child think mother is my protector who save me from all bad , but what is , if mother herself throw child life in risk by break child swear continuously, is it not betrayal to that child and child feelings ? what is the meaning of love ? that kiss every day and say i love you ? or cooking good food and buy new dress and toys ? take care of life ,or love is mean to respect feelings ? if it is love then why there is no fear of life and why there is no respect of feelings.
Doesn't matter its your beloved or child
"Respect of feelings is The love”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Child to child. Eye to eye. We grew as one, sharing souls. Wing by wing, leaf by leaf you left this world, you died before the child. My friend, the Wild.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.”
“Child, you keep demanding impossible promises from those who cannot even take care of themselves.
But what joy have you ever derived from being so dependent and unassured, so needy, lost, and afraid?
You keep saying you want to count on somebody—
but I say stop counting.
You keep telling me you crave security because the world frightens you.
But the world, my love, is what you are.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.”
“Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don't be the man of anyone or any system, don't believe in any religious stories, and don't ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!”
“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
Source: The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain
“Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew
“Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at your braids, Tirry will sing you songs, and your father will see his wife's beauty in you. Savor their love today. And it will never leave you.”
Source: Song of the Sparrow
“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning - because that ain't the time at all... When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.”
“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”
“Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy
“Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.”
Source: Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness
“Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.”
“Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.”
“Child: Why on this night do we eat Hot Fudge Sundaes? Adult: To remind us that being Jewish is like having your birthday every day!! Plus they're delicious!”
“Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.”
Source: Pornography: men possessing women
“Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.”
Source: Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown
“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”
“Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy circumstances. Or if you can't get access to family planning, your chances of surviving and being able to bring your kids up if they come one right after the other, that locks you into a cycle of poverty.”
“Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.”
“Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.”
Source: Childbirth with Insight
“Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.”
Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
“Childbirth is a wonderful thing, but the reality is that it can dramatically change a woman's body. SUI occurs when the vaginal wall weakens and cannot provide adequate support to the urethra, thus causing leaking. The good news is that women with SUI have many different treatment options available to them.”
“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”
Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within
“Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.”
“Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.”
Source: Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
“Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.”
“Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.”
Source: Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
“Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.”
“Childeren are much better at bringing out what they have imagined in their heads. İt's much more straightforward. They don't try to do a good job. İt's nice, isn't it ? Because it's pure, innocent. İt's a part of me that's been lost.”
Source: End of Evangelion
“Childermass knew what games the children on street-corners are playing - games that all other grown-ups have long since forgotten. Childermass knew what old people by firesides are thinking of, though no one has asked them in years. Childermass knew what young men hear in the rattling of the drums and the tooting of the pipes that makes them leave their homes and go to be soldiers - and he knew the half-eggcupful of glory and the barrelful of misery that await them. And all that Childermass knew made him smile; and some of what he knew made him laugh out loud; and none of what he knew wrung from him so much as ha'pennyworth of pity.”
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.”
“Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.”