T Quotes
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“The child’s name is missing an ‘I’ and a ‘space’ before the D. It also requires an N after the A. The truth of the child’s purpose is to DEMAND. But to reverse the name of the child, all’s you need is an N after the M, for the child is DAMNED.”
Source: The Possession
“The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.”
Source: The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications
“The child’s words cut through her like a knife, for she knew there was nothing she could do to stop the young boy’s departure.
“Oh, I love you, too, dear child,” she said, rubbing her fingers through his hair. Eva caressed his small face between her palms and kissed his cheeks gently. “I have something for you,” she said, removing the gold diamond-studded cross from around her neck. She placed the large cross over the boy’s head.
“With this, we’ll always be together. Whenever you have a problem, hold onto this real tight and pray to God. He’ll answer your prayers”
Source: Raw Ice
“The child's world is alert and alive, governed by rules of response and command, not by physical laws: a portentous continuum of consciousness, endowed with purpose and intent, either resistant or responsive to the child itself.
This infantile notion of a world governed by moral rather than physical laws, kept under control by a superordinated parental personality instead of impersonal physical forces, and oriented to the weal and woe of man, is an illusion that dominates men's thoughts all over the world.
The sense then, of this world as an undifferentiated continuum of simultaneously subjective and objective experience (Participation), which is all alive (Animism), and which was created by a superior being (Artificialism), may be said to constitute the frame of reference of all childhood experience no matter where in the world.
No small wonder then, that the above Three Principles are precisely those most represented in the mythologies and religious systems of the whole world.”
Source: The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
“The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents, and complete sanctuary. The weeping earth itself knows how desperate is the child's need for exactly that sanctuary. How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.
Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they would fling us out of their arms in horrified revulsion. Yet we are small and as terrified as we are terrifying in our ferocious appetites.”
“The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.”
“The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a small child absorbs form and colour. Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self-expression with manhood's capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated.”
“The child shall become father to the man.”
“The child shifted and stretched, then at last her eyelids fluttered open. She had kicked off the blanket in the night and Helen felt a small smile come as she looked at the girl, buried in the nightgown that was three times too big.
“Look at you.” Helen let the smile spread a bit. “You’re like a person, but smaller.” She remembered how her brother Paul would tell her the same thing as he leaned against her head. Then Will would chime in as though to stick up for her, saying you had to hand it to short people—because they generally couldn’t reach “it” themselves.
How strange, it seemed in that moment, that all their stories started here, that they’d had years of teasing and banter and laughter, then had grown and life took them to where they were now. All that laughter was gone.”
Source: The Ocean's Daughter :
“The child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous.... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher.”
“The child should live in an environment of beauty.”
Source: The Secret of Childhood
“The child stared at her or at nothing, trying to breathe, and trying again to breathe, and trying again to breathe.”
Source: Tehanu
“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”
Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition
“The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible. He identifies with his surroundings and they live within him unconsciously; it is perhaps for this reason that the small child has been characterized as naturally religious.”
Source: Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
“The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.”
“The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.”
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is weakened, the characteristics of region and clan, neighborhood or kindred are attenuated. The individual is denuded of everything but appetities, desires and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit. A culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs and purposes, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests and politics alike.”
Source: What Went Wrong?: Working people and the ideals of the labour movement
“The child that is not clean and neat,
With lots of toys and things to eat,
He is a naughty child, I'm sure--
Or else his dear Papa is poor.”
“The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.”
“The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.”
Source: The Collected Non-Fiction
“The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child's emotional development has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum's richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.”
“The child turned to look at Elizabeth, then stood up. The head was more disproportionately large than that of a human baby. Upon some reassuring noises from the adults, the the young saur ran across the grass and tumbled into Elizabeth's lap. She crooned over it, tickling and stroking; it reached up its clawed fingers to her hair and whistled.
"Her name is Blathora," said Salasso. "She is two years old." . . .
"Sharp teeth," warned Salasso. "And a taste for mammal blood.”
Source: Cosmonaut Keep
“the child unlucky in his little State,
Some hearth where freedom is excluded,
A hive whose honey is fear and worry,
Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape”
“The "child" was an invention of the seventeenth century; he did not exist in, say, Shakespeare's day. He had, up until that time, been merged in the adult world and there was nothing that could be called childhood in our sense.
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up - that is our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.”
Source: The Medium is the Massage
“The child was beautiful. The perfect combination of light and dark. You could feel power radiate from her and it was beautiful, but terrifying.”
Source: The Legend of Acacia Vitak
“The child was born in the Arab world, and in that sense, Roger and Alice had gone into the land itself, been penetrated by it, bled into its veins (p. 349).”
Source: Body of Lies
“The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.”
Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill
“The child was no longer a shield.
He was food.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“The child was slender as fleeting hope.”
Source: The Exorcist
“The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.”
“The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.”
Source: Methods of Social Reform: And Other Papers
“The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part of the child's mind. The child does not even remember abuse that happened the preceding night.”
Source: Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse
“The child who concentrates is immensely happy”
“The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mistaking one thing for another, he is simply identifying them one with another by what seems to us a quaint extension of the word "lie".”
“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
Source: Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
“The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.”
“The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.”
Source: Collected essays
“The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.”
“The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.”
Source: Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
“The child who is decked with prince’s robes and who has jewelled chains round his neck loses all pleasure in his play; his dress hampers him at every step.
In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust he keeps himself from the world, and is afraid even to move.
Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.”
Source: Gitanjali
“The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.”
“The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.”
“The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'”
“The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.”
Source: Children of Dune
“The child who stares wide-eyed at his surroundings as he travels with his parents, drinking everything in, is very likely to grow up into a footloose adult. The more he discovers, the more he will want to discover - all those thousand obscure corners of the world, all those far-off places that he could only dream of when he used to gaze at the atlas,...”
“The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.”
Source: The Interestings: A Novel
“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.”
“The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed."
"That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”
“The child will reveal himself through work.”