Quotes with parent-child

Quotes 221 till 240 of 503.

  • Campbell Brown It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Dwight L. Moody It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Shakespeare It is a wise father that knows his own child.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Bill Brandt It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
    Bill Brandt, behind the camera: photographs 1928-1983
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • George Washington It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Boris Sidis It is time that the medical and teaching profession should realize that functional neurosis is not congenital, not inborn, not hereditary, but is the result of a defective, fear-inspiring education in early child life.
    Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings It takes three to make a child.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Carolyn Murphy It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Adam Baldwin It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Liza Minnelli It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
    Liza Minnelli
    American actress and singer (1946 - )
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  • Carol Shields It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 314
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Blair Underwood It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Billie Jean King It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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