Lost Child Quotes

• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

  Guy Debord

  Children, Adventure, Lost

  Guy Debord, Ken Knabb (2003). “Complete cinematic works: scripts, stills, documents”, A K Pr Distribution

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• When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

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• Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

  Tom Petty

  Religious, Children, Religion

  Song: Lost Children, Album: The Last DJ

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• People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Children, People, Community

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• We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research.

  Chris Cleave

  Teacher, Children, War

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black

  Hines Ward

  Children, Community, Black

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• in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.

  M. S. Golwalkar

  Country, Children, Order

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• I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose a child cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Children, Compassion

  "Kim Basinger on her “11th Hour” role: “I wanted to portray being maternal, which is so powerful and innate in a woman's psyche”". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. June 13, 2015.

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• The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

  Alan Watts

  Children, Home, Long

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• It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Kings, Children, Drama

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.251, A&C Black

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• All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Cousin, Children, Sibling

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• We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?

  Danah Zohar

  Running, Children, Cancer

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• There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Children, Lost Love, Discipline

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• Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Children, Night

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Prayer, Children, Father

  Louisa May Alcott (2008). “Tales: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.489, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, House, Anxiety

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4304, Delphi Classics

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• Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love, Song, Lonely

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Children, Dark, Dice

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.

  David Farland

  Children, Lost, One Time

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• And he's pressing into her and she into him, bodies shivering, like they are two scared, lost children, starving, starving to be touched, to be held, by someone, anyone, the first one they can find who seems familiar enough, safe enough, strong enough to rescue them. They breathe, heavy. Hard. Their fingers strain at cotton. And then they slow down. Stop. Hold. Rest. Before one of them, or both, begins to sob. Before they break another piece that needs to be fixed.

  Lisa McMann

  Strong, Children, Two

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
  By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
  Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will,
  Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness,
  For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
  And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger
  Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
  And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Brother, Children, Selfish

  "Fictional character: Jules". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Children, Thinking, Israel

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