#child

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. ↗

— Joan Didion

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These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last! ↗

— John Dillinger

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And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet. ↗

— David Dinkins

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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough. ↗

— Diogenes

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I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing. ↗

— Celine Dion

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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. ↗

— Walt Disney

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#action #child #thought

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#brand new #children #each #every #masters

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. ↗

— William Blake

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I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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