Quotes with child-nations

Quotes 341 till 360 of 620.

  • Shirley Williams No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Bill Clinton No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.
    Detroit Economic Club, August 21, 1992
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Lydia M. Child None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bill Cosby Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Mark Twain Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Washington Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Maya Angelou Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Alexander Pope Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Wendell Phillips On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • George Orwell One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Randall Jarrell One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like a child.
    Randall Jarrell
    poet, critic, novelist, essayist (1914 - 1965)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy One saw I was alive. Loosened
    his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
    Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
    The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
    this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
    Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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