Alice Walker Quotes, Mother Quotes, Children Quotes

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

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I wasn't a very outgoing child. I read a lot of books and the characters in each of the books became like imaginary friends - I immersed myself in the different worlds. I always hated finishing books that I really loved for that reason.

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Tags : A Fine Frenzy Quotes , Children Quotes , Book Quotes

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Children Quotes , Twists Quotes

Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Children Quotes

It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Children Quotes , Home Quotes

After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

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I am fond of children - except boys.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Girl Quotes , Children Quotes

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.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Children Quotes , Mother And Daughter Quotes

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Children Quotes , Winning Quotes

I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Children Quotes , Believe Quotes

If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Children Quotes

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

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Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

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Tags : Al Capp Quotes , Children Quotes , People Quotes

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Children Quotes , Play Quotes

If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Country Quotes , Children Quotes

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

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