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There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline. -- Ricardo Montalban
A child miseducated is a child lost. -- John F. Kennedy
I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss. -- Penelope Wilton
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. -- Judy Garland
I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child. -- Diane Ladd
I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child. -- Dolly Parton
My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness. -- Sara Paxton
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. -- Thornton Wilder
Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost! -- Deborah Sampson
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. -- Stacy Schiff
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. -- Cyril Connolly
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back. -- Philippa Gregory
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
For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings. -- Otto Frank
My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. -- Kenny Loggins
I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it? -- Marie Osmond
When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was. -- Elizabeth McCracken
As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered. -- James E. Faust
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible. -- Ishmael Beah
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. -- Guy Debord
Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane. -- Tom Petty
We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves. -- David Farland
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another. -- Rebecca Solnit
But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like. -- Catherynne M. Valente
I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black -- Hines Ward
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.... -- Pablo Neruda
I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose [a child] cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them. -- Kim Basinger
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles? -- Danah Zohar
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same. -- Geraldine Brooks
All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins. -- Elizabeth McCracken
The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen. -- Alan Watts
In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them. -- Louisa May Alcott
We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children. -- Kyle Petty
A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart. -- Mencius
You know you are fat when you hug a child and it gets lost. -- Marcus Brigstocke
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother? -- Joyce Cary
It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory. -- Robertson Davies
The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years. -- Poul Henningsen
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child -- Nachman of Breslov
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter. -- Alice Walker
We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child. -- C. S. Lewis
After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning. -- Nile Rodgers
But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world? -- Patrick Carman
A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life. -- Pope Francis
For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost childâ??wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry. -- Virginia Woolf

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