#child

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #death

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. ↗

— William Gibson

#been #boy #childhood #corner #dead

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#children #every #exactly #footballer #happens

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#better #better chance #born #both #chance

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child. ↗

— Iain Glen

#first #hers #me #our #priority

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it. ↗

— George Gilder

#culture #dispensable #family #feels #his

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#child #creation #himself #importance #isolates

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #early #geniuses #grew #indications

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceive #grown #grown ups #little #need

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. ↗