T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.”
Source: The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes
“The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“The chihuahua and the pink velour track suit. I think it's kind of an iconic look.”
“The Chilcot report is a revelation of injustice under the cloak of Aid. The Chilcot report is a sorry report on the current state of humanity. So the ultimate question here is – what are we going to achieve out of the sorry reports when “sorry” has no meaning in action?”
“the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,”
Source: Prophet Song
“The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking”
“The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.”
Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography
“The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.”
“The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.”
“The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a world of intimacy. It takes a universe to make a child both in outer form and inner spirit. It takes a universe to educate a child. A universe to fulfill a child.”
“The child becomes a person through work.”
“The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.”
Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood
“The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech”
“The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.”
“The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access”
“The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.”
“The Child Christ lives on from generation to generation in the poets, very often the frailest of men but men whose frailty is redeemed by a child's unworldliness, by a child's delight in loveliness, by the spirit of wonder.
Christ was a poet, and all through His life the Child remains perfect in Him. It was the poet, the unworldly poet, who was King of the invisible kingdom; the priests and rulers could not understand that. The poets understand it, and they, too, are kings of the invisible kingdom, vassal kings of the Lord of Love, and their crowns are crowns of thorns indeed.”
Source: The Reed of God
“The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.”
“The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.”
Source: Whole child, whole parent
“The child endures all things.”
“The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.”
Source: Poems
“The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.”
“The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.”
“The child gives, because the body can, and the mind of the violator cannot.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of his nose and climbed up from there to tickle into his teardrop ducts, so in his moss green pupils, curious, insistent, accusing sparks of questions continued to light up and fade away like fireflies flitting about on summer nights.”
“The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.”
“The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.”
“The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.”
Source: Prisoners of Childhood
“The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.”
“The child I was
is just one breath away from me.”
Source: Firesmoke
“The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.”
“The child in me is now silent.
If growing up is being resilient,
I am still a child, just indifferent.”
Source: Misplaced Mind
“The child in me remembers all those great Christmases and the anticipation. It was the anticipation that grabbed me —waiting, waiting, waiting! And wondering if my dream would come true!”
Source: Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
“The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.”
“The child in us remains. It lives in our weaknesses. It lives in our trust. It lives in our desire to hold another’s hand. It lives in our devotion to something more than ourselves.”
Source: Waldmeer
“The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.”
Source: The Sky's the Limit
“The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth.”
Source: Hello Beautiful
“The child inside me wouldn't stop crying. Every time it loses something so important to it. A person or a thing it loves the most, I pretend like nothing happened. But I hear it sobbing helplessly inside me. And the pathetic part of all this is, It neither grows up nor dies. Every time I stand in front of a mirror, it stares at me through my eyes. With its tear-stained face and that intense eyes that rip my ribs apart and the cry of it echoes through every room of my soul.”
“The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.”
Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales
“The child is a combination of the father and the mother. Therefore, he is the role model of his parents.”
“The child is a metaphysical being.”
Source: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.”
Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“The child is a reflection of the God's light, ever-shining, ever-pure. Until it discovers permanent markers. Then, the God's light is mostly on the walls.”
“The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.”
“The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.”
“The child is born free of fear. But it is the feelings or actions of the parents, or those around, that instil the spirit of fear in the child.”
“The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.”
“The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.”