Quotes on children
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
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Jean de La Bruyere Quotes
If the children already born each have only two children themselves, in twenty seven to thirty five years, the population of the world will double.
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Robert H Bork Quotes
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
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Ronald Reagan Quotes
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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William Stafford Quotes
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.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
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Jim Trelease Quotes
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.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
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Saint Francis Xavier Quotes
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
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Elizabeth Stone Quotes
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
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Ronald Reagan Quotes
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
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Mort Sahl Quotes
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
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Herodotus Quotes
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
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Homer Quotes
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
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Unknown Author Quotes
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
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Maxim Gorky Quotes
Children need models more than they need critics.
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Joseph Joubert Quotes
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.
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Sloan Wilson Quotes
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again.
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Unknown Author Quotes
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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Walter Scott Quotes
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Fran Lebowitz Quotes
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
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Lawrence Housman Quotes
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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
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Antonio Gramsci Quotes
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.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
Keep out of reach of children.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Children make you want to start life over.
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Muhammad Ali Quotes
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
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Koran Quotes
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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Pearl S. Buck Quotes
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
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Mell Lazarus Quotes
Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
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John Wilmot Quotes
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
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John W. Whitehead Quotes
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
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Franklin P. Jones Quotes
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Our children are not going to be just our children. They are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
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Mary Steichen Calderone Quotes
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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.
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Goldie Hawn Quotes
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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.
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Maya Angelou Quotes
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
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Hodding Carter Quotes
A father doesn't destroy his children.
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Unknown Author Quotes
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Adults are just children who earn money.
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Kenneth Branaugh Quotes
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
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Frank A. Clark Quotes
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.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad.
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Dena Groquet Quotes
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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Margaret Atwood Quotes
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Men, in general, are but great children.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
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Joe Houldsworth Quotes
Familiarity breeds children.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Maya Angelou Quotes
A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap.
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Author Unknown Quotes
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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Edgar Watson Howe Quotes
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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.
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Rachel Carson Quotes
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
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Bette Davis Quotes
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
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Denis Leary Quotes
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.
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Paul R. Ehrlich Quotes
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
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Franklin P. Jones Quotes
What should we emphasize in our teaching We learn much from Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus. Paul mentored each and sent them out to the churches to encourage and instruct God's Children of Grace. Notice how often Paul uses the words 'command,' 'warn,' and 'remind' in his letters to Timothy and Titus. God wants us to be loving and gentle in the way we teach His children, but He also wants us to be strong, precise and decisive in what we declare. We are not 'asking' Christians to obey God's Word. We are 'telling' them what God commands. We have no special power in ourselves, but when we preach God's Word we have the 'Power' of God behind us Our preaching and teaching should be in the 'Power and Strength' of God. He gave us the responsibility and authority to declare His Word. We do it humbly, but we do it.
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Mark McGee Quotes
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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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Bill Vaughan Quotes
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.
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H Hahn Blavatsky Quotes
When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
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Rita Rudner Quotes
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
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Roger Rosenblatt Quotes
Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes
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.
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Eddie Murphy Quotes
The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority.
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Eddie Murphy Quotes
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
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Lionel Kauffman Quotes
Although there are many trial marriages, there is no such thing as a trial child.
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Gail Sheehy Quotes
The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.
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George W. Bush Quotes