Child Quotes

• "A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer's Hymn to Mercury (st. 69)
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• "Behold, my lords. Although the print be little, the whole matter And copy of the father--eye, nose, lip, The trick of's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley, The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek, his smiles, The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (Paulina at II, iii)
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• "A grandam's name is little less in love Than is the doting title of a mother; They are as children but one step below, Even of your metal, of your every blood, Of all one pain, save for a night of groans Endured of her for whom you bid like sorrow; Your children were vexation to your youth, But mine shall be a comfort to your age."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, iv)
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• "O, 'tis a perilous boy, Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable: He is all the mother's, from the top to toe."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at III, i)
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• "Nay, indeed if you had your eyes you might fail of the knowing me; it is a wise father that knows his own child."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at II, ii) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world! My widow-comfort, and my sorrows' cure!"
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, iv)
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• "Fathers that wear rags Do make their children blind, But fathers that bear bags Shall see their children kind. Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to th' poor."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Fool at II, iv)
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• "Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at I, i)
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• "And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto II, st. 14)
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• "Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. [Ger., Wage du zu irren und zu traumen. Hoher Sinn liegt oft im kind'schen Spiel.]"
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Theklo (st. 6)
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• "Happy child! the cradle is still to thee a vast space; but when thou art a man the boundless world will be too small for thee. [Ger., Glucklicher Saugling! dir ist ein unendlicher Raum noch die Wiege, Werde Mann, und dir wird eng die unendliche Welt.]"
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Das Kind in der Wiege
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• "Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]"
  By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (bk. II)
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• "Pointing to such, well might Cornelia say, When the rich casket shone in bright array, "These are my Jewels!" Well of such as he, When Jesus spake, well might the language be, "Suffer these little ones to come to me!""
  By: Samuel Rogers, Human Life (l. 202)
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• "Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible."
  By: Samuel Rogers
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• "There is nothing more to say, They have all gone away From the house on the hill."
  By: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The House on the Hill
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• "Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age; with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er._"
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 275)
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