Child Quotes
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One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.
Constance Marie
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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
Billy Joel
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And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
Astrid Lindgren
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My family really isn't so different from yours.
Zacharia Wahls
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There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
Astrid Lindgren
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Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do...
Hillary Clinton
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I was always inquisitive as a child, ... I always knocked on doors to find out what could be possible.
Sabeer Bhatia
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There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.
Lisa Ling
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Then Elizabeth moaned and said, “Mountain of God, receive a mother with her child.” For Elizabeth was not able to climb the mountain. And straight away the mountain split open and received her. And the mountain was shining a light on her, for an angel of the Lord was with them, protecting them.
Bart Ehrman
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The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
John D. Voelker
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We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
Paul Eluard
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Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
Eda LeShan
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We have faith in the people who support us. If they really like us, they're going to want to be cool enough to buy our music, and realize that if they don't, the record label gets our first-born child.
Ben Moody Evanescence
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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Walt Whitman
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George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.
George Michael
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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
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Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
Erica Jong
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At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
Morgan Brittany
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Apparently this r had to be worked for: Varya told me that as a child she couldn’t pronounce it properly, and that her father would make her repeat a series of exercises about gorgeous grapes growing on Mount Ararat and three hundred thirty-three drummers drumming on three hundred thirty-three drums.
Bel Kaufman
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Life is a child moving counters in a game.
Heraclitus