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 | "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child
cannot afford to be fooled." | |
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James Baldwin
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| "A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with
possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained." | |
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Lyman Abbott
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| "A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit." | |
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François Rabelais
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| "A child"s education should begin at least one hundred years before
he is born." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "A child"s hand in yours ? what tenderness and power it arouses. You
are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength." | |
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Marjorie Holmes
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| "A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates
it." | |
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Katharine Whitehorn
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| "A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts." | |
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Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette
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| "A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat
his character and fortune." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child." | |
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Unknown
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| "A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence
than another has by his words." | |
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Phillips Brooks
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| "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
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| "Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they
grow up because they"re looking for ideas." | |
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Paula Poundstone
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| "All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks
for cabbages." | |
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Robertson Davies
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| "Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do
us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good
when they have the power to do so." | |
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Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
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| "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends?" | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven?s
street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come,
And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to
Earth." | |
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John Edward Masefield
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| "Ants in his pants." | |
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Proverb
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| "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying." | |
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Fran Lebowitz
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| "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he
usually has a son who thinks he"s wrong." | |
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Charles Wadworth
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| "CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the
idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth ? two removes from the sin of
manhood and three from the remorse of age." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Children and fools speak true." | |
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John Lyly
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| "Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you
reach it faster, too." | |
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Lionel Kauffman
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| "Children are poor men"s riches." | |
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John Ray
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| "Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life." | |
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Sophocles
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| "Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "Children aren?t happy with nothing to ignore, And that?s what
parents were created for." | |
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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." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it." | |
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Harold Hulbert
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| "Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more
bitter." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and
proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to
gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom one day you
must relinquish it all?"" | |
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Socrates
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| "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." | |
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Lazurus Long
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| "Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective
capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to
suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a
community.... The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of
this array of children no less than in our great material affairs." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Education commences at the mother"s knee, and every word spoken
within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of
character." | |
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Hosea Ballou
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| "Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain
the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make
threatening him with it much more effective." | |
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| "Familiarity breeds contempt ? and children." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have
teenagers of their own." | |
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Doug Larson
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| "For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is
not yet disappointed with man." | |
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Rabindranath Tagore
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| "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "God never sends th" mouth but he sendeth meat." | |
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John Heywood
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| "Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your
brain." | |
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Martin Mull
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| "Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity
enough not to fear death." | |
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Erik H. Erikson
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| "Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to
come back home." | |
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William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.
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| "I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for
a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more." | |
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Marc Chagall
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| "I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of
childhood, in my joyful school-days. All, all are gone, the old familiar
faces." | |
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Charles Lamb
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| "I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk." | |
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Robert Bloch
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| "I love children ? especially when they cry, for then someone takes
them away." | |
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Nancy Mitford
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| "I love little children?and it is not a slight thing when they, who
are fresh from God, love us." | |
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Charles Dickens
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| "I love my kids, but I would not want any of them for friends." | |
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Janet Sorensen
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| "If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous." | |
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Alfred Adler
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| "If parents would only realize how they bore their children!" | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may
have peace." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "If you bungle raising your children, I don"t think whatever else you
do well matters very much." | |
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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| "If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a
child, everything usually works out pretty well." | |
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Ruth Carlisle
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| "In the course of a debate with Lewis Terman: Without offering any
data on all that occurs between conception and the age of kindergarten,
they announce on the basis of what they have got out of a few thousand
questionnaires that they are measuring the hereditary mental endowment of
human beings. Obviously, this is not a conclusion obtained by research. It
is a conclusion planted by the will to believe. It is, I think, for the
most part unconsciously planted.... If the impression takes root that
these tests really measure intelligence, that they constitute a sort of
last judgment on the child"s capacity, that they reveal "scientifically"
his predestined ability, then it would be a thousand times better if all
the intelligence testers and all their questionnaires were sunk in the
Sargasso Sea." | |
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Walter Lippmann
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| "In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the
interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with
books." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "It goes without saying that you should never have more children than
you have car windows." | |
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Erma Bombeck
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| "It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will
learn to limp." | |
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Plutarch
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| "It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life
as children." | |
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Sir Kingsley William Amis
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| "It"s never too late to have a happy childhood." | |
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Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins
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| "Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Late children are early orphans." | |
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John Wilmot
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| "Learning to dislike children at an early age saves alot of expense
and aggravation later in life." | |
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Robert Byrne
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| "Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as
taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our
blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as
beautiful as life." | |
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John Muir
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| "Let the child"s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be
what thou wilt." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Madam, there"s no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them
first for seven hours, they always come out tender." | |
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W. C. Fields
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| "Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs
than of their children." | |
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William Penn
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| "Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection
unprotected." | |
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Robert Orben
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| "Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin
unprotected." | |
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Red Buttons
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| "Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their
teeth." | |
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Peter Ustinov
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| "Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by
children." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child"s reason
without destroying your own." | |
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John Mason Brown
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| "See what will happen if you don"t stop biting your
fingernails?" | |
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Will Rogers
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| "Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is
not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.
To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power,
usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into
other minds that underlies tact and savoir?faire, morality and beneficence.
This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the
clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack
of this insight indicates a sort of defect." | |
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Charles Horton Cooley
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| "Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best
friends are children." | |
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J. D. Salinger
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| "Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you
should have stayed a virgin."" | |
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Lillian Carter
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| "Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are
now." | |
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William Wordsworth
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| "The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few
minutes of their time each day." | |
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M. Grundler
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| "The best Muslim house is that in which is an orphan, who is
benefited; and the worst Muslim house is that in which an orphan is
ill-treated." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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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." | |
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Dorothy Parker
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| "The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day." | |
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John Milton
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| "The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart." | |
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Mencius
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| "The greatest respect is owed to a child. ? Maxima debetur puero
reverentia." | |
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Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal
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| "The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are
children at bedtime." | |
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Shannon Fife
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| "The more people have studied different methods of bringing up
children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers
and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best
after all." | |
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Benjamin McLane Spock
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| "The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a
hundred years before he is born." | |
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Dr. William Ralph Inge
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| "The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its
parent." | |
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Mel Lazarus
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| "The soul is healed by being with children." | |
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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| "The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to
waste time in order to save it" | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets
the future in." | |
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Henry Graham Greene
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| "There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one
aims at power and the other at independence." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he
looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he
became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part
of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years..." | |
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Walt Whitman
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| "There"s no point in being grown up if you can"t be childish
sometimes." | |
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Doctor Who
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| "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents,
for these only gave life, those the art of living well." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are
indifferent." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a
child. For what is man"s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven
with those of earlier times?" | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way
yourself once in a while." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child"s
delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in
the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness." | |
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John Boynton Priestley
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| "Too often whe give children answers to remember rather than problems
to solve." | |
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Roger Lewin
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| "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it." | |
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The Bible
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| "We adults forget what we do to children"s imaginations when we go
through one of our national seizures on an issue. A dozen years ago,
Hollywood fell in love with the environmental issue and put enviro
messages in all their shows. The messages made their way into the funnies
and magazines, and parents went to school officials and said, "We"d like
our children to be better educated on environmental concerns." The schools
came through with a vengeance. Now I have a little son who thinks he"s
going to die from pollution. We do not educate our children; we traumatize
them. We are not giving them a vision of a better world; we are giving them
nightmares." | |
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Peggy Noonan
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| "We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns
our own or our children"s lives and what has been foreordained for them.
This is true whether our children number one or ten, and whether the Lord
sends them to us through natural means or adoption. This is a glorious
knowledge." | |
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Linda Eyre
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| "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." | |
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Plato
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| "We can"t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them
and love them as God gives them to us." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "We can"t give our children the future, strive though we may to make
it secure. But we can give them the present." | |
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Kathleen Norris
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| "We spend the first twelve months of our children"s lives teaching
them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and
shut up." | |
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Phyllis Diller
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| "We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he
is someone today." | |
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Stacia Tauscher
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| "Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Upstairs and dounstairs, in
his nicht-goun, Tirlin" at the window, cryin" at the lock, "Are the weans
in their bed? for it "s nou ten o"clock."" | |
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William Miller
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| "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant
intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average
adult." | |
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Sigmund Freud
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| "What"s more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you
can"t hear what they say?" | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter
society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children,
even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay." | |
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Brian Wilson Aldiss
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| "When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I
begin to think of the victims of intact ones." | |
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Peter DeVries
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| "Whenever I date a guy, I think, "Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"" | |
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Rita Rudner
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| "Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to
creep, and to play with them?" | |
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Epictetus
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| "You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is
the only way." | |
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Barbara Pierce Bush
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| "Your childen need your presence more than your presents." | |
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Jesse Jackson
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