Children Quotes - Page 16

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.

Children are prophets of nature.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

When we are no longer children we are already dead

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

A word is a small song.

Leaves lift trees.

The dragon turned on the children and unicorns, his mouth open. For a brief moment, they could see his eyes change from blue to a deep red, like coals in a fire. It was almost as if another, fiercer dragon looked at them through Zebedia’s eyes.

Charlotte’s dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made threatening noises.

Will you miss him Holly?” he asked suddenly.
[...] “No,” she said. “I will not miss him.”
But her eyes told the real story.

I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you’re as clever as you keep telling everyone you are.”
“I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared...

I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.

Will you accompany me in this dance?” he said, bowing and holding out his hand.
“No, thank you.” Miri smiled.
The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance.
Miri laughed self consciously. “I, uh, I was teasing.

Gerti didn’t ask for help.” Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. “It was my fault.”
“So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to.”
“So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?

A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.

Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.