Quotes with child-bearing

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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Miller You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • W. H. Auden You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bryan Batt You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it's the most intense it can ever be.' Then you have a child, and it's like - it's huge!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Toni Morrison You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Dogen You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
    Dogen
    Japanese Zen-teacher
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  • James Baldwin A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bob Keeshan A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • B. F. Skinner A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Elias Canetti Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Jean Arp Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
    Jean Arp
    German-French sculptor, painter, poet (1886 - 1966)
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  • Pablo Picasso Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • John Adams Genius is sorrow's child.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Pablo Picasso What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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