Child Quotes
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I don't think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it's one of those jobs that is far more overwhelming than you could ever expect and far more satisfying than you can ever expect.
Lisa Edelstein -
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
Judy Biggert
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The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.
Elisabeth Elliot -
Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
Nelson Rodrigues -
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.
Charles Addams -
You are a child of God.
Marianne Williamson -
Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it.
Adam Cooper -
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
Marilyn Monroe
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
George Bernard Shaw -
What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?
Helen Keller -
Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
The mother or other parent figure(s) must attend the infant and child so that at least its safety, security and touching are met.
Charles L. Whitfield -
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
Thomas A. Edison -
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child
Charles E. Burchfield
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I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find...a lot of things affect me differently now. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
Prince William -
I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.
Rachel Morrison -
Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
I never put a price on a child.
Abebech Gobena -
I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.
Alan Hollinghurst -
Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.
Euripides
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
Nancy Chodorow -
A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.
Amy N. Stewart -
As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.
Alejandro Zambra -
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
Friedrich Nietzsche