Favorite Child Quotes

• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• A person's a person, no matter how small.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

  Dr. Seuss (1998). “Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

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• My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

  Jim Carrey

  Respect, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hurt, Children, Feelings

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

  Fanny Fern

  Children, Expression, Parent

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.282

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• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  Lance Burton

  Children, Parent, Asking

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• Each of his son's had been his favorite child.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Children, Son

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.78, Random House

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• I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

  Moby

  Children, Parent, Imagine

  "Moby takes sober look at his life as a musician". Interview With Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 13, 2013.

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• That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

  Mel Gibson

  Children, Thinking, Bird

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