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My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
Author, Unknown

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Bruyere, Jean de La

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
Stafford, William

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
Trelease, Jim

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Gibran, Kahlil

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Gibran, Kahlil

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
Sahl, Mort

In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Tagore, Rabindranath

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
Author, Unknown

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Gorky, Maxim

Children need models more than they need critics.
Joubert, Joseph

Children should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again.
Author, Unknown

He who teaches children learns more than they do.
Author, Unknown

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period
Gramsci, Antonio

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

Keep out of reach of children.
Author, Unknown

Children make you want to start life over.
Ali, Muhammad

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Author, Unknown

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
Koran

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Buck, Pearl S.

Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
Wilmot, John

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Jones, Franklin P.

I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Hawn, Goldie

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Shaw, George Bernard

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Angelou, Maya

A father doesn't destroy his children.
Author, Unknown

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Clark, Frank A.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Author, Unknown

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
Unknown, Author

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Atwood, Margaret

Men, in general, are but great children.
Author, Unknown

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Angelou, Maya

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap.
Unknown, Author

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Author, Unknown

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
Carson, Rachel

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
Leary, Denis

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Jones, Franklin P.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Blavatsky, H Hahn

Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children.
Author, Unknown

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
Dodd, Christopher

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
Murphy, Eddie

The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority.
Murphy, Eddie

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Author, Unknown