Child Quotes
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Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
Lauren Graham
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Every time we keep a child from smoking, we improve public health.
Eliot Spitzer
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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
Bebe Rexha
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
Naomi Watts
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Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.
Jennifer Donnelly
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I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
Forest Whitaker
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You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
Oliver Platt
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It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
Plato
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If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.
Kate Winslet
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I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
Ben Affleck
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
Allen Toussaint
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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
Elizabeth Chase Allen
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
Hailey Gates
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
Damien Hirst
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The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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They have truly dedicated their entire lives to making a positive difference in the lives of each child at Nazareth.
Vernon A. Walters