Sleeping Child Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

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.

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