Child Quotes
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Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.
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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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When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no-one will ever love you as much as a small child.
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Is there anything more important than a child?
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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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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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Fashion is capitalism's favourite 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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Unless the home combines interest and freedom, together with teaching, certain children become violent rebels, and, seeking freedom and interest outside of the home, find themselves in a conflict, both with their home teaching and the home teachers, that shakes the unity and the happiness of parent and child.
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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.
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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
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A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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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.
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A child regards your cheery smile as evidence that you are on his side, so he relaxes and is happier.
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I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
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Miracle is the pet child of faith.
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There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.
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The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
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To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
