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Child Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.…
- I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was…
- No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again...…
- If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be…
- So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part…
- Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at…
- You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely…
- This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
- I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
- You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess,…
- I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young…
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- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky… — Joyce Banda
- It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into… — Tyra Banks