What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
#quotes #sylvia-plath #children

I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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