Crying Child Quotes

• Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.

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  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful   Children   War  

  4150

• During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

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  Carol Tavris

  Teacher   Jobs   Children  

  1384

• That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped.

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  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother   Children   Inspiration  

  Gail Carson Levine (2012). “Ella Enchanted”, p.3, Harper Collins

  1361

• It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.

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  Alexander Lowen

  Children   Pain   People  

  3758

• It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.

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  Pope Francis

  Children   Attitude   People  

  Francis, Pope (2017). “With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards”, p.79, Orbis Books

  2007

• When and where will another come to take your holy place? Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?

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  Margaret Walker

  Children   Men   Holy Places  

  Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

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  David Baldacci

  Children   Writing   Lap  

  1768