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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
John Adams
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Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Austin O'Malley
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope
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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee
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Children always turn to the light.
David Hare
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Children and drunks always speak the truth.
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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund Freud
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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
François Fénelon
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Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Hoover
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Franklin P. Jones
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyère
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
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Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
John Ruskin
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
Capel Lofft
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Bette Davis
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert Humphrey
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard
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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Bill Cosby
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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Pablo Picasso
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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
E. W. Howe
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Oscar Wilde
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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. -- Proverbs 22:15
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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de Montaigne
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
William Shakespeare
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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
Jonathan Swift
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Maria Montessori
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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
John Updike
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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy
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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
George Eliot
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
John Ruskin
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead
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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma Bombeck
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette
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It takes three to make a child.
E. E. Cummings
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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. -- Luke 17:2
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
Bob Hope
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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley
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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
Adrienne Rich
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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
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Never have children, only grand children.
Gore Vidal
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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
Jeremy Taylor
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
Maya Angelou
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George Orwell
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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
June Jordan
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel García Márquez
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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora Duncan
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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde
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The child is the father of the man.
William Wordsworth
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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden
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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
John Ruskin
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The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Isadora Duncan
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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James Baldwin
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill
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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
Leigh Hunt
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Cicero
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
June Jordan
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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham Greene
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George Will
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