Quotes with child-like

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  • Bootsy Collins Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Thomas Traherne Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Carrie Fisher Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • William Arthur Ward Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Jim Rohn Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Campbell Brown Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bobby Fischer Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bill Ayers Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Lydia M. Child Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • John Bradshaw Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Bill Hicks Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Marcelene Cox Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Leonard Cohen Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Demick China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bill Kurtis Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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