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251 quotesGenius is sorrow's child.
Genius
John Adams
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Parents and Parenting
Ama Ata Aidoo
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No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
Taxes and Taxation
American Proverb
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
Rock and Roll
Ian Anderson
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Children
Maya Angelou
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Arts and Artists
Jean Arp
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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
Age and Aging
Lady Nancy Astor
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
Communism and Socialism
Clement Attlee
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You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
Sex
W. H. Auden
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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Death and Dying
Red Auerbach
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Children
Gaston Bachelard
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
Education
James Baldwin
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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Children
Lucille Ball
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Money
Honore De Balzac
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
Men
Sir James M. Barrie
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
Strength
Sir James M. Barrie
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
Inheritance
Orlando A. Battista
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Genius is childhood recaptured.
Genius
Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Adulthood
Simone De Beauvoir
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Mothers
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Family
Henry Ward Beecher
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Travel and Tourism
Robert Benchley
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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]
Joy
Bible
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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.
Peace
Bible
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To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
Upbringing
Josh Billings
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun