When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Hosea11:1.

Be not greedy to add money to money: but let it be as refuse in respect of our child.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Tobit 5:18.

Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which wasspoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is,God with us.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew1:22^3

And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 2:11.

And whoso shall receive onesuch little child in my name receiveth me.But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew18:5^6.

And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark 9:24.

   Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and havenotcharity,Iam becomeassounding brass, ora tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all mygoodstofeed thepoor, and though Igivemy body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not herown, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians13:1^13.

Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me, 'Pipe a song about a lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again!' So I piped. He wept to hear.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'Introduction'.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Little Black Boy'.

  O merciful God, grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in him. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Publick Baptism of Infants, Blessing.

We receive this Child into the Congregation of Christ's flock, and dosign him with thesign of the Cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Publick Baptism of Infants, Reception of the Child.

The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; And, while the night isgathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away. Brooke

-Bronte«  , EmilyJane
  'Faith and Despondency', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

-Wilson
  Inside Mr Enderby, pt.1, ch.4.

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child.

-Butler, Samuel
  Hudibras, pt.2, canto1, l.843^4.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the yard and shot it.

-Capote,Truman
Quoted in Linda Botts (ed) Loose Talk (1980).

If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.

-Chirico, Giorgio de
Quoted in Saranne  Alexandrian Surrealist  Art (1970).

Am I prepared to lay down my life for the British female? Really, who knows?† Ah, for a child in the street I could strike; for the full- blown ladyö Somehow, Eustace, alas! I have not felt the vocation.

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  Amours de Voyage, canto 2, pt.4.

So for the mother's sake the child was dear, And dearer was the mother for the child.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Sonnet to a Friend Who  Asked Me How I Felt  When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me'.

He holds him with his glittering eyeö The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years'child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.1.

It's naked child against hungry wolf; it's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck; it's walking on a string across a gulf with millstones fore-and-aft about your neck; but the thing is daily done by manyand many a one; and we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck.

-Davidson,John
  Ballads and Songs,'Thirty Bob a Week', stanza16.