Child Quotes
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Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.
Alma Powell -
When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
Ezra Miller
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I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education?
Craig Kielburger -
When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.
Ina May Gaskin -
A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.
Evan Esar -
The child who hates the parent becomes rigid – unable to let in love. He is so filled with shame that he feels that he cannot take in any further shame. He protects himself by making sure he is always “right.” Such a person often becomes controlling, shaming, and/or abusive.
Beverly Engel -
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
Mother Teresa
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As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.
Harry Lloyd -
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.
Charles Loring Brace -
A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
Catherynne M. Valente -
If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.
Alfie Kohn -
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby -
Try to find ways to be as excited as a child who finds a penny on the ground.
Bill Loguidice
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Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or to the sangha, but to their child because that's the only honest way to do it. You can't have it both ways. So anytime a monk would have sex, there was always that possibility and it was a very big deal.
Brad Warner -
A stern schoolteacher may be an intimidating presence to an average kid, but for a child whose stepfather beats him up, she may represent a torturer and precipitate a rage attack or a terrified cowering in the corner.
Bessel van der Kolk -
One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never had a home of her own, who lives in her grandmother's home and then goes to school and then gets married and lives in her mother-in-law's homes, and then in public housing (like the White House and the State House) - housing becomes for Eleanor Roosevelt the most important issue.
Blanche Wiesen Cook -
Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?
Michael Gambon -
Perfection is the child of time…
Joseph Hall -
Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
Lewis Carroll
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I feel more like a father to a child: my Cube inspired thousands of 'twisty puzzles,' and I'm amazed how it continues to excite new generations.
Erno Rubik -
A child regards your cheery smile as evidence that you are on his side, so he relaxes and is happier.
George W. Crane -
We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.
Alex Pacheco -
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
Phil Donahue