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  Quotations About / On: CHILD
     

153   

  Her creamy child kissed by the black maid! square on the mouth!
 
(Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat.")
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154   

  Woe to that land that's governed by a child.
 
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. 3rd Citizen, in Richard III, act 2, sc. 3, l. 11. Hearing news of the death of King Edward IV; proverbial, from the Bible (Ecclesiastes, 10:16).)
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155   

  Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
 
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Antigone, l. 853.)
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156   

  A star was broken
Into the centuries of the child
Myselves grieve now, and miracles cannot atone.

 
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Ceremony After a Fire Raid.")
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157   

  Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
 
(Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. Quoted in The Reader's Digest (Pleasantville, New York, February, 1978).)
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158   

  Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
 
(Samuel Butler (1612-1680), British poet. Hudibras, pt. 2, cto. 1 (1663-1678).)
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159   

  Doing your child's homework is a bit like believing that they can get into shape by watching someone else exercise.
 
(Lawrence Kutner (20th century), U.S. child psychologist and author. Parent and Child, ch. 8 (1991).)
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160   

  The Child's Toys and the Old Man's Reasons
Are the Fruits of the Two seasons.

 
(William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Auguries of Innocence (l. 91-92). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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