Quotes with child-raising

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  • Carolyn Murphy It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Liza Minnelli It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
    Liza Minnelli
    American actress and singer (1946 - )
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  • Carol Shields It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 314
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Blair Underwood It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Billie Jean King It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Blythe Danner Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Bill Cosby Laughter brings out the child in all of us.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Alice Miller Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mother Teresa Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mary MacCracken Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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  • C. Everett Koop Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Caroline Lawrence Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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