Quotes with child-bearing

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  • Malcolm X The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Adrienne Rich The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Erich Fromm The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Frank Moore Colby The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Agatha Christie The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Dean Inge The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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  • Audre Lorde The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Flores The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Nancy Reagan The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.
    Nancy Reagan
    American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • William Shakespeare The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Epictetus The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Patricia Clifford The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
    Patricia Clifford
    American film producer
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  • Bell Hooks The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • James Fenton The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
    James Fenton
    English poet, journalist and literary (1949 - )
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