Best Like Children Quotations
119 Like Children quotes by 106 unique authors
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Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And…
— Sarah MacLean
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Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that…
— Michael Robotham
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With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.
— Cassandra Clare
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They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being…
— Philip K. Dick
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They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids…
— Ellen Potter
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I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse…
— Lisa Kleypas
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But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events,…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who…
— Dean Koontz
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.
— Sylvia Plath
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And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!
— David Almond
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Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.
— Jill Bolte Taylor
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If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.
— Sarah Dessen
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We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is…
— Pema Chodron
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In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're…
— Tina Fey
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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag…
— Peggy Noonan
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The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
— Charles Reade
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Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
— Thomas Dekker
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Adults under threat feel like children.
— Martha Beck
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I really like children to watch my movies.
— Jackie Chan
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My mother did not like children.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the…
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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