Child Quotes
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When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.
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There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.
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I'm an only child, and after making the movie Yours, Mine and Ours, I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.
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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
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Where does a child of mine get all that hair, I wonder? Arthur’s not exceptionally hirsute, and the men on my side of the family are as bald as potatoes. I must have had an affair with a gorilla before he was born, but you’d think I’d remember something like that, wouldn’t you? ... Be a dear and remind me to leave my brandy flask at home the next time I visit the zoo.
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Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
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Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
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The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave.
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Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
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No child is un-teachable. I will never give up on any kid. Every child can learn.
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Is there anything more important than a child?
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The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.
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Never patronize a child.
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How do you protect a child from heartbreak? All I know is the egg wants to be held all the time, and perhaps if I hold her all the time she will know that she is loved in such a fundamental and profound way that when her heart is broken as an adult, she will not fall apart, will know that she is still loved and lovable.
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Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
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Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
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In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
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I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.
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I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.
