Child Quotes
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This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?
Gautama Buddha
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Supplying enough of the right resources for the child protection system to carry out its three-fold mission (protecting children, preserving families and providing permanent homes for children.)
James "Jim" Seals
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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.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
Esther Meynell
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Nobody wants to sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family.
Cindy McCain
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Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
Nathanael West
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If it were possible to escape from lonely experiences for a moment and stand back from the tree one would see the myriad bright worlds sparkling upon it. But only the greatest could do that. For all but the greatest their own experience was a prison house until the ending of the days. But one could know how bright was the light that carried all souls back to the light when for a moment one entered the world of a child.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I won Wimbledon when I was 19 and again after I had a child.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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The way a mother holds her child underlies “the ability to feel the body as the place where the psyche lives.
Bessel van der Kolk
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There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.
Elizabeth Lesser
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
Hector Hugh Munro
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It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
Susan Hampshire
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As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.
Bessel van der Kolk
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As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.
Susan Shreve
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If I had a child, and I accidentally walked in on him seeing something, I'd rather he'd be seeing two people making love, than two people killing each other. USA in such a violent country, that I'd rather support sex!
Eva Mendes
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When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.
Nick Cassavetes
