Quotes with child-nations

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  • Bayard Taylor But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Brad Sherman Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Berthold Auerbach Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Henry Kissinger For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Albert Ellis I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Kofi Annan If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sam Levenson Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • C. S. Lewis 'Are the gods not just?'
    'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?'
    Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) Orual & The Fox
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Alice Duer Miller A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Bennet Omalu A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Miller A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Frank A. Clark A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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