Quotes with child-nations

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  • Norman Mailer Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Tobias G. Smollett Glory is the child of peril.
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  • Robert Browning Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Benjamin Franklin God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Haggai God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
    John Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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  • C. Thomas Howell Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • John Ruskin Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bow Wow Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Bob Riley Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • David Grayson Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Bill Cosby Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anthony Burgess He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Henderson He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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