Quotes about child
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“Do you know the first thing I said as a child, before I said "Mama" or "Dada"? I said "Leave me alone!"”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

(laughs) Is that not the mantra of stand-up comedy?
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)

“Not only does having a child really increase your carbon footprint, but we are living on an earth where there are a lot of organisms — human, non-human — that are in desperate need of care. And so, for me, if people want to care for children, for animals, whatever, there are cries for care everywhere. I’m asking us to reflect on this idea that we need to reproduce.”

Patricia MacCormack Australian Scholar

Why this professor's climate-crisis solution is rankling Twitter: 'The worst thing you can do is have a child' https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-professor-climate-crisis-solution-rankling-twitter-155305526.html (13 February 2020) Yahoo!Life

Children, People, Idea, Animals

“In terms of carbon footprint, the worst thing you can do is have a child. And it’s the one taboo that nobody wants to speak.”

Patricia MacCormack Australian Scholar

“I am what I am. I am Christ and Antichrist, God and Satan, Heaven and Hiroshima, Arcadia and Auschwitz.” Smiling devilishly, Sarkos lumbered up to Lovett. “Get it, fat boy? God is a duality. Dr. Jehovah and Mr. Hyde.” He lobbed the bottle cap into his mouth and chewed. “Allow me to tell you a bedtime story. It’s called ‘The Day the Gas Chambers Malfunctioned at Auschwitz.’ On second thought, why bother? You know the plot—the title gives it away—I’m surprised Braverman and Kelvin left it out of their overblown epic. Can you imagine how it feels to be a seven-year-old Jewish child, standing in line with hundreds of other Jewish children, waiting your turn to be thrown alive onto an open fire?”

James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author

Swallowing the bottle cap, Sarkos swerved toward Martin. “Don’t you see? It’s the only solution that can possibly work. No other theory comes close. Of course God has a dark side. Not just dark—evil. Radically, radically evil.”
Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 15 (p. 390; spoken by the Devil, named Jonathan Sarkos in the book)

God, Children, Smile, Feeling

“The pretty game of calling on the children of the audience of "Peter Pan" to declare their faith in fairies seemed to me disastrous—a game of men and women at the expense of children, a cumbersome frolic at best and an artificial, a tyrannous use of the adult sense of sentimental humour against the helpless. I could with better conscience use my superior physical strength upon them than exploit them for love of my own condescension. (And yet Sir J. Barrie has written the most adorable "pretending" story ever written about a child.)No, children love a fairy story not because they think it true, but because they think it untrue, and because it makes no fraudulent appeal to their excellent good sense. That sense they are delighted to put aside while they "pretend." That is their own word.[…] "Let's pretend," not "Let's believe."”

Alice Meynell (1847–1922) English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist

Their mother does not put "Let's pretend" into the child's mouth; she finds it there. Without it there is no play. But the pretending is always drama and never deception or self-deception.
"V. Fairies", pp. 32–33
Childhood (1913)

Love, Women, Men, Children

“Forgive me, masters of the mind!
At whose behest I long ago
So much unlearnt, so much resign'd —
I come not here to be your foe!
I seek these anchorites, not in ruth,
To curse and to deny your truth; Not as their friend, or child, I speak!
But as, on some far northern strand,
Thinking of his own Gods, a Greek
In pity and mournful awe might stand
Before some fallen Runic stone —
For both were faiths, and both are gone.”

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)

God, Truth, Faith, Forgiveness

“See, see where Christ's blood streames in the firmament:
It flows from the Brow we nailed upon the tree Deep to the dying, to the thirsting heart
That holds the fires of the world, — dark-smirched with pain
As Caesar's laurel crown. Then sounds the voice of One who like the heart of man
Was once a child who among beasts has lain —
"Still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my Blood, for thee."”

Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet

Still Falls the Rain (1940)

Love, Pain, World, Making love

“The mothers of all ages are those who have suffered because others suffered; for each of them, self is less sensitive than the sense of her child. Self is not locked up in the maternal heart, there to be cherished, as it is by the egoist, or to be crushed and silenced, as it is by the Saint. In the mother, self is not lost, but loses all its evil by the passionate personal love that distributes it among sons and daughters. Perfect self-less love would perhaps be distributed through the multitude, but a mother is not perfect: nature has so much use for her—separate, family use—that she cannot let her go free from irrational, indispensable partialities and limitings, even injustices, all serving the turn of the race.”

Alice Meynell (1847–1922) English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist

Source: Mary, the Mother of Jesus: An Essay (1912), Ch. IV. "The Mother", p. 40

Love, Age, Making love, Family

“Men of genius and wonderful nerve and determination, who in the Dark Ages would have been conquering princes, have... thrown their ability into Commerce and have conquered, not territory and slaves, but trade and its child, money, from any and every part of the world where trade was to be found.”

Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) America born English businessman

The Romance of Commerce (1918), A Representative Business of the Twentieth Century

Men, Money, Age, World

“Empathy is a virtue which, when it only goes from parent to child, and is not required of the child, becomes a vice.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 138

Parent

“Exercise helps build the muscle of a child’s brain even more effectively than studying.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 94

Exercises, Study, Help

“…I remember as a child holding these long notes, so there’s something that’s already there. But I do think it’s a constant question of knowing and taking care of yourself. It doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t have a tequila or a mezcal once in a while…In my case, it’s very important to have it because through that you express the emotion you have from within. Sometimes that gives you some more secrets about how to handle your instruments.”

Lila Downs (1968) Mexican American singer-songwriter

On her vocal style in “Lila Downs Reminds Us of the Strength Women Bring to Latin America and its History” https://sheshredsmag.com/lila-downs-14/ in She Shreds (2018 May 3) Music and culture

Secret, Question, Thinking

“The publicly propagandized aims of communism are vaguely liberal. One can read the Daily Worker every day for a year without finding any clear exegesis of Communist principle. Like Hitler, Communists, outside their own ranks, promise all things to most men, denouncing only ‘monopolists’ ‘imperialists’ (and failing to provide a glossary for their meaning of these terms), opposing race discrimination, child labor, etc.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

Source: "Let the Record Speak" 1939, “The Truth about Communism” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051180423&view=1up&seq=5 (1948), p. 10

Men, Communication, Reading

“He brings man's freedom in his hands,
Not as a coin that may be spent or lost
But as a living fire within the heart,
Never quite quenched — because he brings to all,
The thought, the wish, the dream of brotherhood,
Never and never to be wholly lost,
The water and the bread of the oppressed,
The stay and succor of the resolute,
The harness of the valiant and the brave,
The new word that has changed the shaken world.
And, though he die, his word shall grow like wheat
And every time a child is born,
In pain and love and freedom hardly won,
Born and gone forth to help and aid mankind,
There will be women with a right to say
"Gloria, gloria in excelsis deo!
A child is born!"”

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist

Innkeeper's wife
Source: A Child is Born (1942)

Love, Women, Pain, World

“I am not tired.
I am expectant as a runner is
Before a race, a child before a feast day,
A woman at the gates of life and death,
Expectant for us all, for all of us
Who live and suffer on this little earth
With such small brotherhood. Something begins.
Something is full of change and sparkling stars.
Something is loosed that changes all the world.”

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist

Innkeeper's wife
Source: A Child is Born (1942)

Life, Death, World, Star

“I'm waiting. … For something new and strange,
Something I've dreamt about in some deep sleep,
Truer than any waking,
Heard about, long ago, so long ago,
In sunshine and the summer grass of childhood,
When the sky seems so near.
I do not know its shape, its will, its purpose
And yet all day its will has been upon me,
More real than any voice I ever heard,
More real than yours or mine or our dead child's,
More real than all the voices there upstairs,
Brawling above their cups, more real than light.
And there is light in it and fire and peace,
Newness of heart and strangeness like a sword,
And all my body trembles under it,
And yet I do not know.”

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist

Innkeeper's wife
Source: A Child is Born (1942)

Peace, Sleep, Light, Grass

“I’ve never really planned anything in my career, and just taken the chances as they came my way. I like to think of myself as destiny’s child! I’m sure people down south also check out the Hindi version.”

Nikki Tamboli (1996) Indian Actress

Bigg Boss 14: Nikki Tamboli wants to work with Vijay Sethupathi after reality show

People, Way, Thinking, Chance

“[W]e understand that if the child were to give in to the overpowering character of reality and experience he would not be able to act with the kind of equanimity we need in our non-instinctive world. So one of the first things a child has to do is to learn to “abandon ecstasy,” to do without awe, to leave fear and trembling behind. Only then can he act with a certain oblivious self-confidence, when he has naturalized his world. We say “naturalized” but we mean unnaturalized, falsified, with the truth obscured, the despair of the human condition hidden, a despair that the child glimpses in his night terrors and daytime phobias and neuroses. This despair he avoids by building defenses; and these defenses allow him to feel a basic sense of self-worth, of meaningfulness, of power. They allow him to feel that he controls his life and his death, that he really does live and act as a willful and free individual, that he has a unique and self-fashioned identity, that he is somebody—not just a trembling accident germinated on a hothouse planet that Carlyle for all time called a “hall of doom.””

Ernest Becker book The Denial of Death

We called one’s life style a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one’s whole situation. This revelation is what the Freudian revolution in thought really ends up in and is the basic reason that we still strain against Freud We don’t want to admit that we arerevelation is what the Freudian revolution in thought really ends up in and is the basic reason that we still strain against Freud. We don’t want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives. We don’t want to admit that we do not stand alone, that we always rely on something that transcends us, some system of ideas and powers in which we are embedded and which support us. This power is not always obvious. It need not be overtly a god or openly a stronger person, but it can be the power of an all-absorbing activity, a passion, a dedication to a game, a way of life, that like a comfortable web keeps a person buoyed up and ignorant of himself, of the fact that he does not rest on his own center. All of us are driven to be supported in a self-forgetful way, ignorant of what energies we really draw on, of the kind of lie we have fashioned in order to live securely and serenely. Augustine was a master analyst of this, as were Kierkegaard, Scheler, and Tillich in our day. They saw that man could strut and boast all he wanted, but that he really drew his “courage to be” from a god, a string of sexual conquests, a Big Brother, a flag, the proletariat, and the fetish of money and the size of a bank balance.
Human Character as a Vital Lie
The Denial of Death (1973)

Life, Death, Truth, World

“Every day
When the enchanted times child shares my solitude
She lifts me with fatal calmness
Out of the orbit of the four seasons
Through the worn out doors
Searching for the fifth Season
Where dreams should have poured.”

Thuraya AlArrayed (1948) Saudi poet and writer

The Doors ;the Game of Times
Source: Patty Paine, ‎Jeff Lodge, ‎Samia Touati (2011). Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry. p. 255

Dreams, Search, Solitude, Time

“Most important, you are not alone. With you, beside you, interlocked in you are others. They do not have names, nor are you aware of them as shapes, but you know them and you are bonded to them with a great single knowledge. They are exactly like you, they are you, and like you, they are Home. You feel with them, like gentle waves of electricity passing between you, a completeness of love, of which all the facets you have experienced are but segments and incomplete portions. Only here, the emotion is without need of intense display or demonstration. You give and receive as an automatic action, with no deliberate effort. It is not something you need or that needs you. The "reaching out" is gone. The interchange flows naturally. You are unaware of differences in sex, you yourself as a part of the whole are both male and female, positive and negative, electron and proton. Man-woman love moves to you and from you, parent-child-sibling-idol and idyll and ideal—all interplay in soft waves about you, in you, and through you. You are in perfect balance because you are where you belong. You are Home.”

Robert Monroe (1915–1995) American founder of The Monroe Institute

Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 8. Because the Bible Tells Me So

Love, Making love, Sex, Feeling

“£60,000,000 I saw was being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child abuse. What on earth is that going to do to protect the people now?”

Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist

Boris Johnson: Money Spent Investigating Historical Child Abuse Is "Spaffed Up The Wall" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_FSqfXyUFk, LBC, 14 March 2019 2010s, 2019

People

“… I had my own personal experiences with prejudice. I was the only child of color in primary school, junior high and high school. I went through all those years feeling like a freak in one all-white school after the other. The family next door wouldn't let their daughter play with me because I was Mexican. I got on a bus once in D.C. with my father, who was very dark, and they told us to go to the back of the bus, where black people had to sit in those years. All this created in me a feeling of empathy and solidarity with people of color and formed the roots of my commitment to fighting for social justice and against racism.”

Elizabeth Martinez (1925) American community organizer, activist, author, and educator

On becoming a political activist in "Unite and Overcome!" https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-1997/unite-and-overcome in Teaching Tolerance (Spring 1997)

People, School, Family, Justice

“The greatest inheritance that a parent can leave to their child is the memory of his love, otherwise the rest has no value.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La più grande eredità che un genitore possa lasciare al proprio figlio è il ricordo del suo amore, altrimenti il resto non ha alcun valore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Making love, Parent, Memory

“It's Christmas every time you smile at a child, holding his hand. It's Christmas every time you recognize your limits, your mistakes. It's Christmas every time you stay silent to hear each other. It's Christmas every time you give your sweetness with love. It's Christmas every time you listen to the song of the heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) È Natale ogni volta che sorridi a un bimbo, tenendogli la mano. È Natale ogni volta che riconosci i tuoi limiti, i tuoi errori. È Natale ogni volta che rimani in silenzio per ascoltare l'altro. È Natale ogni volta che doni con amore la tua dolcezza. È Natale ogni volta che ascolti la canzone del cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Making love, Smile, Time

“You are never too adults to ensure that you do not keep the child inside each of us.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Non si è mai troppo adulti per far sì che non si conservi il bambino che è dentro ognuno di noi.
Source: prevale.net

“When it is a child you ask a lot of questions and ask for answers. When you are an adult you avoid many questions, to avoid unnecessary answers.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Quando si è bimbi si fanno tante domande pretendendo altrettante risposte. Quando si è adulti si evitano molte domande, per evitare inutili risposte.
Source: prevale.net

Question

“Suppose my child ask me what the fairytale means, what am I to say?”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

If you do not know what it means, what is easier than to say so? If you do see a meaning in it, there it is for you to give him. A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor your child should know what it means? It is there not so much to convey a meaning as to wake a meaning. If it do not even wake an interest, throw it aside. A meaning may be there, but it is not for you. If, again, you do not know a horse when you see it, the name written under it will not serve you much.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)

Fairytale

“When you subsidize anything, you get more of it. Paying teens even a pittance to have more children encourages them to do so. By the time they are old enough to vote, they finally realize that they will always be poor unless they can get into the work force. By then, however, it is almost too late. Unless a relative helps out, child care costs are prohibitive for someone starting in an entry level job. They find themselves forever stuck in the ‘Poverty Trap.’”

Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist

Source: Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked, (2012), p. 137

Children, Time, Help

“I was always determined to find just the right book for that one child who maybe was a reluctant reader. I knew there was a book to turn him on to reading. I just had to find it. I do have a special place in my heart for kids who maybe have trouble reading or who just don't want to for various reasons. It's always my goal to write books that will somehow entice them to want to read.”

Debbie Dadey (1959) American children's writer

Children's author Debbie Dadey visiting downtown library to sign books, brainstorm. https://lancasteronline.com/features/entertainment/children-s-author-debbie-dadey-visiting-downtown-library-to-sign/article_bf6e4607-f0ba-5e73-a88f-64c9cb876bb2.html (July 29, 2013)

Books, Reading, Heart

“My dream when I was a child was to be a medical doctor so that I could help people suffering from diseases.”

Chiaki Mukai (1952) astronaut, medical doctor

People, Disease, Dreams, Suffering

“Like many American born Asian-Americans, I wanted to assimilate as a child. I wanted to fit in. As I grew older, I realized that instead of fitting in, why not stand out?”

Jason Tanamor (1975) Filipino-American Author and Writer

Filipino Daily Inquirer Interview (2020)

“I always wanted to be an author. I thought it was the coolest job. As a child of immigrant parents, it wasn't ever something that they promoted. They always wanted me to do something practical.”

Jason Tanamor (1975) Filipino-American Author and Writer

United States Army Interview (2016)

Parent

“Driving down child mortality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was in no way a single project, but it can be seen as a unified human accomplishment—maybe even our greatest human achievement, at least for pediatricians and parents.”

Perri Klass (1958) American pediatrician and writer

[Introduction, A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future, https://books.google.com/books?id=fNjVDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=unified&f=false, 13 October 2020, W. W. Norton, 978-0-393-61000-0] (ebook)

Way, Parent

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

Love, Friendship, Parent, For Parents

“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”

George Foreman (1949) a retired American professional boxer, ordained Baptist minister, author and entrepreneur

Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

“I was born in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, during the Soviet-era when there wasn’t any Tatar language…and without any Muslim tradition. I was a Soviet child without my past, without my family roots, because at the time it was forbidden to explain anything.”

Chulpan Khamatova (1975) Russian actress

As quoted in "Russia’s Chulpan Khamatova on Stalinist Backlash Over ‘Zuleikha’ (EXCLUSIVE)" in Variety (10 June 2020) https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/chulpan-khamatova-communist-backlash-zuleikha-1234627594/

Family, Time, Past

“When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.”

P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist

From "I Never Wrote for Children," by P. L. Travers, in the New York Times Magazine, July 2, 1978.

Love, Life, Fish, Sea

“Every human thought passes at the moment of its development into the external world, where it becomes an active being … Consequently, a person continuously inhabits the path he traverses in world space with a multitude of images representing child of his fantasies, desires, aspirations and passions.”

Pierre Piobb (1874–1942) French ophthalmologist (1874-1942)

Source: Book Ancient Higher Magic

World, Passion, Personality

“When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

Thinking

“The teachings of a parent are fundamental during the adolescence of a child, so that he will one day be ready to face the most difficult test: life.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Gli insegnamenti di un genitore sono fondamentali durante l'adolescenza di un figlio, affinché lui un giorno sia pronto ad affrontare la prova piú difficile: la vita.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Parent

“Some people there are who, being grown, forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child. An adult is rarely successful in the undertaking — the reduction of experience to a set of symbols. For a thousand thousand years these humans have existed and they have only learned this trick — this magic — in the final ten thousand of the thousand thousand.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Introduction
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

People, Effort, Learning, Reading

“When Grandmamma fell off the boat,
And couldn’t swim, and wouldn’t float,
Maria just sat by and smiled -
I almost could have slapped the child!”

Harry Graham (1874–1936) British writer

Indifference
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

Smile

“Thank God – because what are you going to write about if you don’t struggle as a child? I don’t think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

On how her miserable childhood may have inadvertently affected her writing in “The incredible life of Isabel Allende” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10589928/The-incredible-life-of-Isabel-Allende.html in The Telegraph (2014 Jan 28)

God, People, Thinking, Memory

“The judge also must behave like a little child, in order to make sense out of a senseless case.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Sense

“The first child is also loved, when he is still the only child and there is the absence of someone who can take his place.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love

“The last child is always loved by the parents, simply because he has the ability to imitate and learn from those who saw the sun before him.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Love, Parent, Learning, Sun

“The last child must inherit all the great attributes of his elders, then add in some of his own characteristics to be completely unique from the rest.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The last child, which is Islam, acknowledged his elders and gave them credit for the foundations that they laid before him.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Nearly right is child's play.”

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) American photographer

Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, Sarah Greenough, Washington: National Gallery of Art. 2000, pp. 26–53; as quoted on Wikipedia

“I think it's wrong, particularly for clergymen, to protect a child molester. This is a step backwards.”

Beverly White (1928–2021) American politician

As quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune https://archive.ph/9bzsC (February 26, 1988) Stated in response to legislation which would allow confessions from child abusers to the clergy to remain confidential

Thinking

“To call your child Mohammed is to colonize France”

Éric Zemmour (1958) French essayist

Macron lashes out at Zemmour: “Our identity is not built on narrow-mindedness" https://palnws.be/2021/09/macron-haalt-uit-naar-zemmour-onze-identiteit-is-niet-gebouwd-op-bekrompenheid/

“I have, even as a child, always been a firm believer in fairness and always strive to be even-handed in my dealings with everyone,”

Beatrice Mtetwa (1957) Zimbabwean human rights lawyer

Source: Beatrice Mtetwa: Zimbabwe’s Frontline Defender Of Human Rights https://www.newzimbabwe.com/beatrice-mtetwa-zimbabwes-frontline-defender-of-human-rights/

“There's literally no difference between a physician recognizing a disease from a "facial expression", and a little child pointing to something and saying "doggie."”

Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist

Source: Talks at Google - Nov 10, 2011

Disease

“Their little universe is very young, and its god is still a child. But it is too soon to judge them; when We return in the Last Days, We will consider what should be saved.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 88, Epilogue

God, Universe

“My parents are very supportive of me, I’m their only child, of course, so I always have to call them before I leave and when I arrive somewhere. Sometimes I still don’t think they really understand what I’m doing! I think they’re just happy that I’m happy and I love my job.”

Liu Wen (model) (1988) Chinese model

Source: "Liu Wen Talks Style, Diversity And What It Means To Be China’s First Supermodel" in Marie Claire https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/fashion-news/liu-wen-interview-china-s-first-supermodel-talks-style-diversity-and-her-mango-campaign-15375 (3 March 2016)

Love, Happiness, Understanding, Support

“As soon as you know you want a child, you have a baby fever when you see a cute baby.”

Simisola Kosoko (1988) Nigerian singer and songwriter

Source: https://amp/s/www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/simi-speaks-with-pulse-nigeria-interview/wjmypg8.amp Simi during an Interview with Pulse Nigeria

Baby

“We must stand up for equality, justice and human dignity because it is vital to each and every one of us all – woman, man and child”

Funmi Falana Nigerian lawyer, women's rights activist

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/12/funmi-falana-tells-nigerians-to-defend-their-human-rights/ Funmi Falana speaking during a walk to commemorate the International Human Rights Day

Justice

“Education has always been known as the pathway to progress. The early child education will be integrated.”

Oby Ezekwesili (1963) Nigerian accountant, politician, human rights activist, convener of bring back our girls (Chibok girls) and pres…

Source: https://independent.ng/2019debate-30-powerful-quotes-from-oby-ezekwesili-reactions-to-questions/

Education

“We will not stop until every Nigerian girl-child has found their voice and found their pocket.”

Ibukun Awosika (1962) Nigerian business magnate

Source: https://theafricadebate.com/news-2018/2018/an-interview-with-ibukun-awosika Speaking in an interview about herself (April 18 2018)

Girl

“We have undertaken to give the German people an education that begins already in youth and will never come to an end. It starts with the child and will end with the 'old fighter.' Nobody will be able to say that he has a time in which he is left entirely alone to himself.”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Source: Nuremberg Party Rally (14 Sept. 1935) Quoted in Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1931-1945, Chronicle of a Dictatorship, Max Domarus (ed.), Vol. 2, London, p. 701.

People, Youth, Education, Time

“I'm not sure I was very good as a kid. It was a craft that I learned. However, I was very enthusiastic as a child and you get better over the years!”

Ryan Gage (1983) English actor

Source: Ryan Gage On His Blossoming Career and Exciting New Projects! https://www.iconvsicon.com/2014/11/28/on-the-rise-ryan-gage-on-his-blossoming-career-and-exciting-new-projects/ (2014)

Learning

“I must be fit for a child's glad greeting,
His are eyes that there is no cheating;
He must behold me in every test,
Not at my worst, but my very best;
He must be proud when my life is done
To have men know that he is my son.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: All That Matters (1922), p.30 - The Boy's Ideal, final stanza.

Life, Men, Cheating

“Over the years of wrestling with the obstacles that stand between child and education, I have come to believe that government monopoly schools are structurally unreformable.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. xxxvi

Education, School

“Nothing is more devastating than a life without liberty. A life in which one can be forced into parenthood is just such a life. Rape is among the most profound denials of liberty, and compelling a woman to bear a rapist's child is an assault on her humanity. How different is it to force her to remain pregnant... because efforts at birth control accidentally failed?”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Source: Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990), Approaching Abortion Anew

Life, Birth, Effort

“Suspended between fear of the past and fear of the future, I recorded the dream in my journal. Then, without any explanation, as if the connection between the two were obvious, I wrote, I don’t understand why I wasn’t allowed to get a decent education as a child.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 18, “Blood and Feathers” (p. 163)

Education, Fear, Dreams, Understanding

“Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far From The Madding Crowd

Love, Spring, Summer

“Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth.”

Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) American suffragist

In an article in the West Virginia Evening Standard (1875) expressing her moral opposition to abortion

Birth, Thinking

“The idea that we're going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child, based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think goes way overboard”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Biden reacts to leaked draft Supreme Court opinion on abortion https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-reacts-leaked-draft-supreme-court-opinion-abortion/story?id=84467397 2022, May 2022

Way, Idea, Thinking, Decision

“We should also have national red-flag laws so that a parent, a teacher, a counselor can flag for a court that a child, a student, a patient is exhibiting violent tendencies, threatening classmates, or experiencing suicidal thoughts that makes them a danger to themselves or to others.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, June 2022, Remarks on Gun Violence in America

Law, Parent, Suicide, Teachers

“Look, as a father and a grandfather — and I’m sure we all feel the same way — I understand how difficult this shortage has been for families all across the country. There is nothing more stressful than the feeling like you can’t get what your child needs — what he or she needs.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, June 2022, Remarks by President Biden During Virtual Meeting on Accelerating Infant Formula Production Through Operation Fly Formula

Family, Way, Feeling, Understanding

“I needed to change my ways and set an example for my child as an Haitian parent.”

Alexard Esther (1996) Alexard Esther also know as Jenny Queen is a Haitian short story writer, novelist, chronicler, screenwriter and …

Way, Parent, Change

“Every Ukrainian is a target for Russians: Every woman, every child.
Those who died the other day from a Russian missile [while] trying to evacuate from Kramatorsk were not members of the presidential family, they were just Ukrainians. So the number one target for the enemy is all of us.”

Olena Zelenska (1978) Ukrainian architect and screenwriter

The number one target is all of us (2022)

Family

“I wasn't an especially rebellious child, but I can say I gave my parents a lot of trouble at times. Because I had a lot of guts and was always taking risks, I either got hurt or sometimes broke other people's things and caused problems. I always sparked a lot of trouble.”

Wei Jingsheng (1950) Chinese democracy activist and dissident

Interview with the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (1998), Background

People, Problem, Parent, Time

“For a child who found herself transported overnight to other side of the world, where she knew no one other than her parents, books were my salvation.”

Qian Julie Wang (1987) Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer

"An Interview With Qian Julie Wang" in Penguin Random House https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/qian-julie-wang-interview/

Books, World, Parent

“Imagine what it’s like to look at your child who needs insulin and have no idea how you’re going to pay for it. What it does to your dignity, your ability to look your child in the eye, to be the parent you expect to be.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Remarks of President Joe Biden – State of the Union Address As Prepared for Delivery (March 1, 2022) https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/01/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-delivered/ 2022, March 2022, State of the Union Address

Imagination, Idea, Parent

“If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

124
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960)

Men, God, Feeling, Nature

“The articulation of concerns common to almost all women, such as health, child care, domestic violence, rape and reproductive rights, is much more frequent than it was two decades ago.”

Elizabeth Martinez (1925) American community organizer, activist, author, and educator

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (2017)

Women, Health

“O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep,
Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light
Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
Love is a pouting child.”

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer

"Sleep (A Woman Speaks)", line 1, p. 98.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

Love, Angels, Sleep, Light

“It is sad for us to report this, but the clock has been turned back and California agriculture, with the exception of a handful of contracts that we still hold, we now have the labor contractor, the crew leader system back again, we now have child labor back again.”

Dolores Huerta (1930) American labor leader

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

Sadness

“The pride of any mother is to give birth to a responsible and successful child.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657
Works, Pride and Prejudice

Birth, Success

“Let us prepare every child for the test of life, not just a life of tests.”

Nancy W. Gleason book Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Source: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=LXlhDwAAQBAJ

Life

“Homo sapiens is a child of the most ancient humans, resulting from their self-survival. Therefore, a tribute to them is love for humankind.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Love

“Every woman, from becoming and feeling like a real mother, fights every day like a warrior in the name of love for her child with strength, courage and making great sacrifices; so that she always manages to give him serenity, happiness, security and will to live.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ogni donna, dal diventare e sentirsi una vera madre, lotta ogni giorno come una guerriera nel nome dell'amore per il proprio figlio con forza, coraggio e facendo grandi sacrifici; affinché riesca sempre a donargli serenità, felicità, sicurezza e voglia di vivere.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Happiness, Feeling, Courage

“LIFE LESSONS FROM ENGR. ABAH SULE BIOGRAPHY -My Life And Passion For Reading " When I was a child, I taught as a child, I spoke as a child and I understood as a child thinking that freedom is free. But when I became a man I put away childish things, i realized that it was not true, freedom is not free it is what we fight for everyday for our children and for the next generation. -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

Life, Children, Thinking, Freedom

Engr.Abah Sule

Life, Children, Thinking, Freedom

Engr.Abah Sule

Life, Children, Thinking, Freedom

“In art, to create something unique, one must experience the joy of a child, the exhilaration of a teenager, the insecurity of an adult, and the experience of an elderly person.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In arte, per creare qualcosa di unico, bisogna provare la gioia di un bambino, l'euforia di un adolescente, l'insicurezza di un adulto e l'esperienza di un anziano.
Source: prevale.net

Art, Joy, Personality

“Education should encourage creativity and innovation in all children. Achievement comes from exploring potential, where each child can discover their best qualities and capabilities.”

Titon Rahmawan

Children, Education

“Every single word a parent addresses to their child comes from their heart. They are words of love, they are aids to face the greatest challenge: life.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ogni singola parola che un genitore rivolge al proprio figlio viene dal suo cuore. Sono parole d'amore, sono aiuti per affrontare la sfida più grande: la vita.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Parent, Heart

“It's a great privilege for an adult to still have the gift to dream like a child.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: È un grande privilegio per un adulto avere ancora il dono di sognare come un bambino.
Source: prevale.net

Dreams

“Often, the great sacrifices of a parent always remain in the shadows, but are own them the load-bearing pillars of the finish lines achieved by one's child.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Spesso, i grandi sacrifici di un genitore rimangono sempre nell'ombra, ma sono proprio loro i pilastri portanti dei traguardi raggiunti dal proprio figlio.
Source: prevale.net

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