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Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. — Gustav Stresemann

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself? ... Or, to "be" himself? — Milkweed L. Augustine

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. — Heraclitus

The misfortune of man is that he was once a child. — Frantz Fanon

No man who could rationalize the death of a child could truly be called a man at all, — Tom Clancy

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart — Mencius

Every man here, every woman here, every child here whose heart is right with God, may be a soul-winner. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't. — Lee Child

We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child. — Paul Eluard

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child. — Pythagoras

In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother. — Santosh Kalwar

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. — Mencius

The day guy was an aquiline black man about seven feet tall, but slender as a pencil, folded into a desk chair that was far too small for him. — Lee Child

how long before hope begins to eat itself? how many flags must be waved? when does a man let go of his wife's hand in order to hold his child? — Alix Olson

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way. — Muhammad Ali

Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. — Leonard Bernstein

They say an old man is twice a child — William Shakespeare

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild. — Shaun Hick

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience. — Edward Abbey

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. — Eric Hoffer

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?' — Mo Ibrahim

...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim. — Mike Lew

I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight. — Toni Morrison

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. — Amanda Hocking

Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man's life change forever. — Lee Child

... He also said, if you can't acquaint an opponent with tease, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk. He was a man of sound instincts. — Lee Child

The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth

I am the abandoned child, now become a man. So everything has turned out pretty well. . . A little too much importance is accorded to things I say. — Emmanuel Bove

A man's jealousy is like a child's, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman's jealousy is adult, which is very different. — Daphne Du Maurier

Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire. — Steve Maraboli

The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance. — Chanakya

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The child is father of the man ... .attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before Freud's time — Shirl Solomon

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort. — F. Matthias Alexander

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly — Pablo Neruda

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear. — James Anthony Froude

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit? — Frank Zappa

The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues — Alexandre Dumas-fils

In short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value. — Charles Dickens

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one. — Barack Obama

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I had a brief glimpse of a frail, mature man carrying a ravaged child in his arms... — Muriel Barbery

I give it to you now because, child of soldier, child of man, child of angel, it is not necessary to win the battle, if in the end, you win the war. — Jessica Shirvington

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. — Confucius

P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child. — Peter Diamandis

A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions. — Alan J. Pakula

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his. — Mitch Albom

No man can bear a child's cross. — Francois Mauriac

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home. — Susanna Wesley

A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions. — Linda Alfiori

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man. — Plato

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God. — Sheila Walsh

Oh merciful God, grant that the old Adam in this child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in her.... — M.L. Stedman

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. — Karl Marx

I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me. — Chief Joseph

An honest man is always a child.
[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.] — Martial

Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

May the man hold fast to what the child has promised. — Pope Francis

Don't let him lead you astray, my child. He's such a wicked man, woof! — Edmund White

Ance a man-child has beaten his way to life under the heart of a woman, she is mither to all men, for the hearts of mithers are everywhere the same. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be. — Peter Matthiessen

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman. — Barry Humphries

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

In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child. — Randy Alcorn

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. — Pablo Neruda

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off." — Richard Sherman

The child must teach the man. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A woman can produce what no man can: a child. — Clare Boothe Luce

I was a bad child. Fortunately, I've come a long way since then. Now I'm a bad man. — Brent Weeks

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy. — Kid Rock

In an honest man there is always something of a child. — Plato

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time. — Mary Jo Bang

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child. — Georg Brandes

What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one. — Barack Obama

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum

My soul insists that I mourn not a man but a child. — Kurt Vonnegut

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power. — Suzanne La Follette

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man. — Rabindranath Tagore

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man. — Sidney Poitier

An honest man is always a child. — Socrates

It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild. — Tina Turner

No decent man would ever strike a woman or a child. — Ellen J. Barrier

Vesna Esta Holicia, until you shine again, into vision, into the real world. Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal. — Miyuki Miyabe

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up. — Anthony Fauci

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. — Halldor Laxness

My child, never judge a man because of his race. Never. God looks at the heart. So should we. We are all made in God's image. — Robin Lee Hatcher

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on. — Wally Schirra