Child Quotes
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I had a very happy childhood; I just wasn’t a very happy child.
Hank Green
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One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.
Beverly LaHaye
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Satvajaya can decondition the mind so we can see things fresh, like with the eyes of a child. Satvajaya techniques rid us of negative emotions, thought patterns, and prejudices that may weigh us down like undigested food.
David Frawley
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In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.
Paul Klee
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When a child knows there's a secret, they don't know what it is, but they know it's there, and they know they're being lied to.
Julia Garner
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Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.
Edward Zigler
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And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.
William Blake
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Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.
Kirby Larson
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It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.
William Faulkner
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It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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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
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If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it.
Bryan Kest
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A child, yes, is a vortex of anxieties.
Elena Ferrante
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Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.
Edward Davey
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When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?
Bob Dornan
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If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
Josette Sheeran
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
Nancy Chodorow
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I changed my hopes to being a singer when I was a child and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.
Elizabeth Crook
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Is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose Tongue is indeed a child with a knife.
Callimachus
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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
Joanne Rowling
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Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a child," that whole thing - I do believe it is qualitatively different.
Emily Susan Rapp
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There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.
Carre Otis
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If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.
Alfie Kohn
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One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.
Mike Tyson