Quotations About / On: CHILD

  • 181.
    Here a little child I stand,
    Heaving up my either hand;
    (Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. Grace for a Child (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 182.
    Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
    Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.
    (John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn, st. 1 (1820).)
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  • 183.
    Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
    (John Ruskin (1819-1900), British writer.)
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  • 184.
    The Child's Toys and the Old Man's Reasons
    Are the Fruits of the Two seasons.
    (William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Auguries of Innocence (l. 91-92). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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  • 185.
    On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.
    (Jane Austen (1775-1817), British novelist. The narrator, in Sense and Sensibility, ch. 6 (1811).)
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  • 186.
    A man growing old becomes a child again.
    (Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 434 (Peleus).)
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  • 187.
    It's largely the luck of the draw as to what type of temperament your child has.
    (Lawrence Kutner (20th century), U.S. child psychologist and author. Pregnancy and Your Baby's First Year, ch. 8 (1993).)
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  • 188.
    Go practise if you please
    With men and women: leave a child alone
    For Christ's particular love's sake!
    (Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 3, l. 88-90 (1868-1869).)
  • 189.
    He who shall teach the Child to Doubt
    The rotting Grave shall ne'er get out.
    (William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Auguries of Innocence (l. 87-88). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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  • 190.
    One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
    (Jerome S. Bruner (20th century), U.S. psychologist and educator. "After John Dewey, What?" Bank Street College of Education Publication (March 1961).)
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