“The CHILD must know that he is a MIRACLE, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world will not be, another child like him.”
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Pablo Casals10
Catalan cellist and conductor 1876–1973Related quotes
“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“You must be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage.”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
As quoted in Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography (1986) by Robert A. Caro and William Knowlton Zinsser. Also quoted in Truman by David McCullough (1992), p. 44, New York: Simon & Schuster.-
Context: You must be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right … Never do anything wrong to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so, is dearly purchased at a sacrifice. Deal kindly, but firmly with all your classmates; you will find it the policy which wears best. Above all do not appear to others what you are not.
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon, ch. 1
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
“Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.”
Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects
Source: Possible Side Effects
“Every child is an artist until he's told he's not an artist.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter