Child Quotes
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If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.
Cheri Huber
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One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
Joyce Kilmer
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus
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I never put a price on a child.
Abebech Gobena
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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.
Alan Hollinghurst
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I saw my friends being beaten because they said no to child marriage.
Sonita Alizadeh
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As a child I could lie in bed and do absolutely nothing for hours but once I decided to do something, big or small, I could not stop until it had been completed.
Freddie Ljungberg
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
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In one of Chekhov’s short stories, a little boy is drawing a picture. His father asks him why the man in the picture is taller than the house. “If he were smaller,” says the child reasonably, “you couldn’t see his eyes.” ENTRY:
Bel Kaufman
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Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.
Aristotle
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Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
Celine Dion
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Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
Gautama Buddha
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Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.
Epictetus
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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'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.
Burt Reynolds
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There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.
Lisa Ling
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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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Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
Josette Sheeran
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Think about how often—before cell phones, before any kind of caller ID—you answered the landline as a child and had to have an exchange, however brief, with aunts or uncles or family friends. Even if it was that five-second check-in, How are you doing, how is school, is your mom around—it meant periodic real-time vocal contact with an extended community, which, through repetition, it reinforced.
Ben Lerner
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Although I felt I was changed, I had remained the disciplined person who had never avoided anything. And besides, I said to myself, what can she do to me? I'm a woman, not a child. At most she'll bring something good to eat.
Elena Ferrante
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I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework.
Brigitte Michael Sumner
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You are a child of God.
Marianne Williamson