- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Child Quotes
On childhood, creativity, and growing up.
Some quotes treat a creative project as being as demanding as raising a child; others come from adults looking back at being teased, being an only child, or noticing how plainly children can speak the truth. Childhood extends that memory.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.
- Arising
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having a child.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
- Nov 07, 2020
It takes three to make a child.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.
- Complexities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020