Quotes with child-raising

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  • Alain de Botton When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Boris Becker When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Philip Roth When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Boman Irani When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel When one teenager dying of cystic fibrosis asked me, 'Why am I different?' I answered, 'Tony, because it makes you beautiful.' He loved my answer because he knew full well how much he had done for the world and that he would be immortal through his love and the fund raising of those who knew him hoping to find a cure for cystic fibrosis.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Carolyn Wells When Venus said, Spell no for me, N-O, Dan Cupid wrote with glee, And smiled at his success: Ah, child, said Venus, laughing low, We women do not spell it so, We spell it Y-E-S.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Austin O'Malley When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005. [2]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Criss Angel When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.
    Criss Angel
    American magician, illusionist and musician (1967 - )
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  • Alice Miller Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Blanche Lincoln Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Adam Sandler With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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