Sleeping Child Quotes

• The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

  J. H. Oldham

  Children, Sleep, Kissing

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• No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. No one can posses the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Children, Rain

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• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Good Night, Baby

  "Fictional character: Jennifer Jareau". "Criminal Minds" ("Boxed In", Season 10, Episode 5), October 29, 2014.

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Mother

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• A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Children, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Sleep, Attacking

  "U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack". www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2014.

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• Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

  Christine Pelosi

  Children, Lying, Sleep

  "Deadly Priorities: Why Did PG&E Spend Millions on Politics, Instead of Pipelines?" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.

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• There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

  Anne Michaels

  Children, Grief, Believe

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• All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Children, Nice, Mean

  Sherwood Anderson (1997). “Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson”, p.19, University of Georgia Press

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• A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

  Joseph Bruchac

  Children, Sleep, Stories

  Joseph Bruchac (1996). “Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred”, Fulcrum Pub

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