Quotes with parent-child

Quotes 361 till 380 of 503.

  • Napoleon The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Carolyn Murphy The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Mother Teresa The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Christian Morgenstern The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
    Christian Morgenstern
    German poet (1871 - 1914)
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  • Anais Nin The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Bee Wilson The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Alice Walker The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Stephen Nachmanovitch The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Malcolm X The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Adrienne Rich The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Erich Fromm The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Frank Moore Colby The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Jean Paul The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Agatha Christie The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • John Lennon The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Dean Inge The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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