CHILDREN

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(879 votes)  Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Richard L. Evans

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(751 votes)  The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

John Lennon

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(684 votes)  Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(644 votes)  And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

Woody Allen

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(621 votes)  Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(620 votes)  When you walk in the shadow of a stranger, you learn things you never knew you didn't know

aesop

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(581 votes)  When I was born, I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half.

Gracie Allen

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(574 votes)  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
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(561 votes)  It's fun being a kid.

Bradford Arthur Angier

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(561 votes)  Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Ed Asner

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(526 votes)  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
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(526 votes)  Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are.

Louisa May Alcott

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(525 votes)  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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(513 votes)  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
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(513 votes)  Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.

Joyce Armor

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(512 votes)  We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley
1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet

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(512 votes)  Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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(510 votes)  A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Lyman Abbott
1835-1922, American Congregational Clergyman and Editor

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(506 votes)  Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

Richard Armour

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(499 votes)  I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams

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(478 votes)  Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader

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(476 votes)  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglas

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(475 votes)  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
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(469 votes)  Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(467 votes)  Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones

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(464 votes)  You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

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(458 votes)  Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones

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(444 votes)  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
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(443 votes)  There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Alexander Chase

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(442 votes)  When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Rodney Dangerfield
American Comedian, Actor

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(439 votes)  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
1878-1927, American Dancer

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(435 votes)  Ask the young, they know everything!

Joubert

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(428 votes)  Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis
1772-1801, German Poet, Novelist

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(427 votes)  Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Elie Wiesel
1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer

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(426 votes)  Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Al Capp
1909-1979, American Cartoonist

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(423 votes)  What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Ann Landers
1918-, American Advice Columnist

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(420 votes)  Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Marcelene Cox

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(417 votes)  Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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(415 votes)  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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(413 votes)  The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones—which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Sydney J. Harris

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(413 votes)  Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

John W. Whitehead

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(412 votes)  Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Robert Pollok
1798-1827, Scottish Religious Poet

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(412 votes)  The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Jean Kerr

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(409 votes)  Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(407 votes)  There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(399 votes)  Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dr. James C. Dobson
American Psychologist, Author

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(399 votes)  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.

Bill Vaughan
1915-1977, American Author, Journalist

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(393 votes)  Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot Romola

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(387 votes)  I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.

Jack Handey

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(382 votes)  For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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