Child Quotes
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
Sophocles
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I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
Isabel Sanford
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As a child, I liked to play outside, to stroll through the fields, and I was an active member of the local children's gang, frequently being chased by field guards and building supervisors. Nevertheless, my performance at school was very good, and mainly due to the influence of my mother, I was allowed to attend high school.
Hartmut Michel
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When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
Nora Ephron
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I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.
Elaine Equi
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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
Jane Austen
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Being a stay-at-home mom to one child, a baby, when you’re a mom of one is not really a full-time job,” she says sotto voce, as if revealing a dirty secret. “You’ve got a lot of other time. I think that’s where all the canning and the cloth diapering and that frenzy comes in. You have this time vacuum. It really isn’t that hard to look after one kid all day long.
Emily Matchar
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In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.
Esai Morales
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.
Elizabeth Grimston
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Lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
Elizabeth Edwards
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I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.
Richard Simmons
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So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
Lewis Carroll
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Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
Ezra Taft Benson
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As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.
Brigham Young
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
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Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
