Sleeping Child Quotes:

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

- J. H. Oldham

topic: Children, Sleep, Kissing, Just Kiss Me, Kissing Funny

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

topic: Beautiful, Children, Rain, Sleeping Child, Magical Moments

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Family, Good Night, Baby, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Love, Mom, Mother, Mom And Child, Mother And Baby

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

topic: Country, Children, Sleep, Sleeping Child

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children

- Ban Ki-moon

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

topic: Children, Sleep, Attacking, Shameful, Sleeping Child

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

- Christine Pelosi

topic: Children, Lying, Sleep, Surveyors, Crumbling Infrastructure

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

topic: Children, Grief, Believe, Fugitive, 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.

- Sherwood Anderson

topic: Children, Nice, Mean, Nice Feeling, Sleeping Child

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

- Joseph Bruchac

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

topic: Children, Sleep, Stories, Sleeping Child