Quotes with child-raising

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  • Colin Powell Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Bill Cosby Yes, 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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  • Billie Holiday Yes, the strong gets more
    While the weak ones fade
    Empty pockets don't ever make the grade
    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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  • Kahlil Gibran Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bob Ney Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Billy Sunday You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
    Billy Sunday speaks (1970)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Michael Moore You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Miller You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • W. H. Auden You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bryan Batt You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it's the most intense it can ever be.' Then you have a child, and it's like - it's huge!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Toni Morrison You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Dogen You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
    Dogen
    Japanese Zen-teacher
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  • James Baldwin A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bob Keeshan A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • B. F. Skinner A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Elias Canetti Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Jean Arp Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
    Jean Arp
    German-French sculptor, painter, poet (1886 - 1966)
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  • Pablo Picasso Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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