Quotes: child
Quotes 106 till 120 of 409.
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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
Source: The Songlines p. 270 -
Every child is born a genius.
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
Source: Animal Dreams -
Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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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.
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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Genius is sorrow's child.
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Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
