Quotes with child-like

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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Andy Rooney The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Alan Cohen The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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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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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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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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  • William Butler Yeats The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Butler The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Johnson Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Their peace and their war
    Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bill Griffith Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Billy Boyd Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Bobby McFerrin Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Sara Teasdale Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
    Sara Teasdale
    American lyric poet (1884 - 1933)
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  • Will Rogers There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • A. Whitney Brown There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
    The Big Picture: An American Commentary (1991)
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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