Adam Phillips Quotes, Children Quotes, Independent Quotes

The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’

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Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Dream Quotes , Children Quotes

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Children Quotes , Ocean Quotes

The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Children Quotes , Home Quotes

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Children Quotes

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , Kids Quotes

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Children Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Nature Quotes , Children Quotes

If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Children Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

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Tags : Al Barr Quotes , Children Quotes , America Quotes

Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Children Quotes , Insecure Quotes

I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Children Quotes , Lovely Quotes

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Children Quotes , War Quotes

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Christian Quotes , Children Quotes

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Children Quotes , Our Children Quotes

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Children Quotes , Childhood Quotes

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Dream Quotes , Children Quotes

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Children Quotes , Growth Quotes

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Children Quotes , Tired Quotes

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

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Tags : Alan Dundes Quotes , Children Quotes , Grandparent Quotes