Quotes with parent-child

Quotes 401 till 420 of 503.

  • Agatha Christie There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbra Streisand There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Thought is the parent of the deed.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Pericles Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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  • Allen Klein To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Red Auerbach To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Berthold Auerbach To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Josh Billings To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Ted Danson To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
    Ted Danson
    American actor, author and producer (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antoine Rivarol To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Marguerite Duras To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • J. B. Priestley To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Puzant Kevork Thomajan True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
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