Quotes with child-raising

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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Peter Pan (1904)
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Caitlin Moran Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Cass Sunstein For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi - gentle and calming and good - and Vader, fierce and terrifying.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Charles Dickens For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Eileen Stukane For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much - anticipated vacation.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Ruskin Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • B. F. Skinner Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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