Quotes with child-bearing

Quotes 101 till 120 of 461.

  • Alan Paton Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Carmen Electra Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Plato Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
    Lighthousekeeping (2006) 116
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Don't set your wit against a child.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Douglas Adams Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Boomer Esiason Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Oswald C. Hoffman Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human.
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  • Gaston Bachelard Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Every child is born a genius.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Lydia M. Child Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Peter Pan (1904)
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Caitlin Moran Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bill Dedman Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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