Quotes with child

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Albert Ellis I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Sam Levenson Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • C. S. Lewis 'Are the gods not just?'
    'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?'
    Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) Orual & The Fox
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Alice Duer Miller A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Bennet Omalu A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Miller A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Frank A. Clark A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Eliot A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bill Cosby A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Carlos Gershenson A one-night-stander is someone who does not dare to explore the full potential of a relationship, just like a child who is afraid to go to the deep part of the pool. The latter does not want to learn how to swim, the former does not want to learn how to live.
    Source: Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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