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Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Freedom, Sleep

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
Adrienne Rich

Life, Love, War

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie

Life, Nature, Through

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer

Love, Whatever, Call

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
Charles Stanley

Trust, Family, God

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
Demetri Martin

Same, Door, Bird

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.
Henry Rollins

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
Layne Staley

Death, Person, Him

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Agatha Christie

Nothing, Stranger, Yours

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
America Ferrera

Life, Thankful, Important

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker

Important, Why, Question

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
Alice Walker

Respect, Justice, Try

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley

Training, Plan, Hand

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
Gilbert Parker

Mother, Again, Born

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori

Good, Evil, Lies

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann

Fear, Heart, Sure

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley

Fear, Another, Falsehood

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton Wilder

Love, Lost, Tell

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
Martha Beck

Powerful, Caring, Result

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
Wayne Gretzky

Time, Best, Sports

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells

Nature, Him, Against

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

Wrong, Adult, Becomes

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
Michael Gove

Time, Teacher, Important

The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie

Down, Dead, Says

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
James M. Barrie

Strength, Passion, Grows

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
Sophocles

Give, Hating, Birth

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
Bob Ney

Time, Sex, Justice

Don't set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift

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 there will not be, another child like him.
Pablo Casals

End, Him, Another

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