Children
Quotes - The gut is the seat of all feeling
“Children are our greatest
natural resource.”
― Herbert Hoover
“Outings are so much more fun
when we can savor them through the children's eyes.”
― Lawana Blackwell
“Without the support from religion--remember,
we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to
bring up a child.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna
Karenina
“The disgraced Usurer Yankel
D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper
in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be
disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to
feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint...
Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right,
and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on
her, it wasn't important to him.”
― Jonathan Safran
Foer, Everything is Illuminated
“What feeling is so nice as a
child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in
the shelter of your clasp.”
― Marjorie Holmes
“The gut is the seat of all
feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also
destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans. Bad
bacteria in the gut creates neurological issues. Autism can be cured by detoxifying
the bellies of young children. People who think that feelings come from the
heart are wrong. The gut is where you feel the loss of a loved one first. It's
where you feel pain and a heavy bulk of your emotions. It's the central base of
your entire immune system. If your gut is loaded with negative bacteria, it
affects your mind. Your heart is the seat of your conscience. If your mind is
corrupted, it affects your conscience. The heart is the Sun. The gut is the
Moon. The pineal gland is Neptune, and your brain and nervous system (5 senses)
are Mercury. What affects the moon or sun affects the entire universe within.
So, if you poison the gut, it affects your entire nervous system, your sense of
reasoning, and your senses.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up
and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Then I say, "Let's go
and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my
teeth because somebody is using my tooth." "But who would use your
toothbrush?" I ask. Lola says "I think that lion. I saw a lion with
my toothbrush and now he's brushing his teeth with it." "But it isn't
this your toothbrush Lola?" "Oh," says Lola, "he must be
using yours.”
― Lauren Child, I Am
Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed
“Children were vehicles for
passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts,
stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through
children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the
world.”
― Margaret Atwood, The
Penelopiad
“We are no longer worried
that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried
that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.”
― Tom Bissell
“Woe to the man who offends a
small child!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
The Brothers Karamazov
“There is a wisdom in
children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not
have. There is a time when a kingdom needs its children.”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale
Dark & Grimm
“I wondered how long it took
for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took
a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that
was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your
child as well as you know yourself.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle
with Care
“One of the things that
Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.”
― Hark Herald
Sarmiento
“Trains and boxcars and the
smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we
happen on later and become self-conscious about.”
― Ray Bradbury,
Dandelion Wine
“No one belongs when they are
new to this world. All children are Changelings.”
― Catherynne M.
Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
“It is indeed a mistake to
confuse children with angels”
― Douglas Coupland,
Hey Nostradamus!
“Father has a strengthening
character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
― Amit Kalantri,
Wealth of Words
