Small Child Quotes - Page 4

• We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.

  Bob Cousy

  Motivational, Basketball, Children

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• And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Cat, Voice

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it has a force of its own. It is not a simple matter to relax; it is one of the most complex phenomena possible, because all that we are taught is tension, anxiety, anguish. Seriousness is the very core the society is built around. Playfulness is for small children, not for grown-up people. And I am teaching you to be children again, to be playful again. It is a quantum leap, a jump...but it takes time to understand.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Teaching, Simple

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• When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say in passing that it has been my experience that most people who fall out of the Church do so because they were not in far enough.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Children, Fall

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• In countries where breast-feeding has stopped, more smoking will automatically be there. That's why the West smokes more than the East - because no mother is ready to give her breast to the child because the shape is lost. So in the West smoking is increasing more and more; even small children are smoking.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Country, Children

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• When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Horse, Children

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• There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Children, Distance

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey in O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.

  Andre Bauer

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Starve the Poor" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2010.

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• I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Men, Years

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• A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Country, Children, Mind

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• I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

  Margaret Mahy

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  Francine Pascal

  Children, Writing, Play

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• I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

  Juliet Marillier

  Children, Thinking, Style

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• No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mom, Children, Night

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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• The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Real, Artist

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Purple, Parent

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• Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Humility, World

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Children, Vulnerable, Breathe

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity”, p.332, Workman Publishing

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• Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

  Charlotte Gray

  Dream, Children, Heart

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• She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Children, Humorous, Ice Cream

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Animal, Play

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• However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Children, Parent, Easier

  "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.

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• I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Children, Light

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.204, New Directions Publishing

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• I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Strong, Children, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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