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Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates. — Simon Sinek

Guilt is a hunter. My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child. It's all your fault, the voice whispered. I — Ruta Sepetys

She touched his shoulder, very lightly, like a child fingering a forbidden object. — Ross Macdonald

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. — Paloma Faith

I love romantic comedies. I love romantic movies. I'm kind of a sucker for them, and, sort of end up crying at the end of them all, like a child. — Elijah Wood

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach. — Kathryn Stockett

Just because you have to eat shit doesn't mean you have to become shit. — Paige Dearth

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. — Jean-Pierre De Caussade

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning. — David Mitchell

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child. — A.R. Rahman

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. — Frank A. Clark

If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content. — Dharma Mittra

The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them. — Lesley Manville

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world. — L.R. Knost

Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. — Charlotte Bronte

He's worth having. All I got was two fake lawsuits." "Seems like Morgan's value just went down, as part of a credible — Lee Child

...the child of a wolf may not feel like she has fangs until she finds herself facing the moon, but they are still there the whole time regardless. — Jenni Fagan

Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word - WRITER - anytime — Gillian Flynn

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive — Joseph Weizenbaum

But he was a tease. Like a woman! Like a Child! In fact, he wouldn't be surprised if SL was a woman after all! — Belinda Bauer

If Pete's (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he's a boy, my son will defeat him. — Andre Agassi

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are. — Lela Loren

She was regal as a queen. Eager as a child. Proud as a cat. And she was like none of those things. Nothing like them. Not in the least little bit. — Patrick Rothfuss

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry ... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really. — Adriana Lima

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus. — Chris Murray

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story. — Julia Child

And I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves. — Iain Banks

It is inhuman to humanize animals;
it is like raising a child in a cage. — Joey Lawsin

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. — Vivienne Westwood

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. — Swami Sivananda

You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown. — Demi Lovato

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. — Jamie Murphy

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. — Leo Buscaglia

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

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way. — Robert Boswell

Be happy for no reason, like a child. — Deepak Chopra

But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us. — Belinda Jeffrey

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror. — Anais Nin

We mothers can testify that it is impossible to completely control a child. It's like trying to steer a cat. Toni sorenson — Toni Sorenson

The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence. — Miguel Ruiz

Wasteland is land which is worthless
for cultivation. Like a child who has been emotionally
bruised in a way that can never heal. — Pankaj Suneja

Tenderness is the attempt to create a tiny artificial space in which it is mutually agreed that each will treat the other like a child. — Milan Kundera

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. — Guy Laliberte

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run. — Joan Benoit

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play. — Johnny Mercer

She looked like a mother protecting her child of course, we're talking a half-crazed, bloodthirsty mother. — Jocelynn Drake

For a child, parents' warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps. — Confucius

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child, — Celine Dion

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. — Robert A. Heinlein

I honestly can't pick a favorite person I like to work with - that would be like choosing a favorite child! — Behati Prinsloo

It takes maturity to be able to laugh
like a child again. — Moffat Machingura

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Like a child, I fear the darkness — Cynthia Eden

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child. — John Grant

We have said that Athos loved d'Artagnan like a child, and this somber and inflexible personage felt the anxiety of a parent for the young man. — Alexandre Dumas

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. — Gary Hamel

Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's. — Eimear McBride

My mother once said that having a small child is like having a permanently drunk houseguest. — Moira Hodgson

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings. — Heraclitus

Lancelet's skin was so soft - she had thought all men were like Arthur, sunburnt and hairy, but his body was smooth as a child's. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. — Lorna Luft

She was of the Fae. She did not worry over right or wrong. She was a creature of pure desire, much like a child. — Patrick Rothfuss

Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child. — Matthew De Abaitua

Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away — Jeroo Billimoria

The mind of a child is like a kiss on the forehead - open and disinterested — Patti Smith

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture. — Sigmund Freud

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. — Billy Wilder

A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta's child could be safe. — Suzanne Collins

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it. — Adam Cooper

I played like a child. — Magnus Carlsen

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. — P. J. O'Rourke

I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks. — Vince Staples

I like French fries, I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie. — Gayle Forman

It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has. — Logan Lerman

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know? — Jenna Brooks

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. — Camille Paglia

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child. — Dave Grohl

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation. — Andrea Bocelli

When I was a child I spoke like a child, thought like a child, acted as a child. But now that I am and adult i put my childish ways behind me. — Anonymous

A child from a parent who self-fertilized would be like a clone of the parent with severe genetic damage. — Randall Munroe

Reading the books, I've always loved reading. It was easier than talking. Like a child playing games. — Elise Kova

But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield — Charles Dickens

Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams. — Dr. Linda Barboa

You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself. — Paul Graham

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. — Antonin Scalia

I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it. — Anonymous

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone. — Jeff Buckley

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child. — Jean Sasson

One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child. — Frederick Lenz

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size. — Don Knotts

There is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. — Derren Brown

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. — Stephen Levine