Quotes with child-raising

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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Samuel Butler Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Forsyth There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • James Baldwin There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Maria Montessori There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bell Hooks There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Agatha Christie There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbra Streisand There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Allen Klein To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Red Auerbach To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Berthold Auerbach To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Josh Billings To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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