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Children Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
- No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely…
- It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do…
- When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
- Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed…
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon