Henry Robin
“Every baby needs a lap.”
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Author Unknown
“Children are the bridge to heaven.”
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Don Herrold
“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”
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Richard B. Fuller
"Every child is born a genius."
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Carl Sandburg
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
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Michael Carr
"All kids are gifted. Some just open their packages earlier than others.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." –
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Bruce Barton
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
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Author Unknown
“A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.”
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Herbert Hoover
"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
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Author Unknown
"Every child born, has innate goodness."
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Author Unknown
"The soul is healed by being with children."
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The Talmud
“A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home.”
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Tom Stoppard
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
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Author Unknown
“It takes a whole village to raise a child.”
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Robert A. Heinlein
“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
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Garrison Keillor
“Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
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Theodore Hesburgh
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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Rabindranath Tagore
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
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Author Unknown
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
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Author Unknown
“Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.”
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P. D. James
“What a child does not receive, he can seldom later give.”
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Author Unknown
“A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.”
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Tom Robbins
“It is never too late to have a happy childhood.”
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Author Unknown
“A daughter is a little girl who grow up to be a friend.”
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German Proverb
“He who teaches children learns more than they do.”
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Vicki Lansky
“You will always be your child’s favorite toy.”
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Author Unknown
"Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate."
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Author Unknown
“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
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Dr. Seuss
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
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Oliver Wendell Homes
“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.”
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John Fitzergald Kennedy
“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
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Pablo Picasso
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
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Wess Stafford
"Every child you encounter is a divine appointment."
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Joseph Joubert
“Children have more need of models than of critics.”
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Princess Diana
"Hugs can do great amounts of good — especially for children."
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Susan Glaspell
“Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house.”
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Joseph Joubert
“Children need models more than they need critics.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
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Phyllis Dryden
“Life, love, and laughter - what priceless gifts to give our children."
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Harry Edwards
"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open."
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Mignon McLaughlin
"Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun."
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John W. Whitehead
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
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Leo J. Burke
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."
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Ed Howe
“Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.”
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Charles Osgood
“Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful.”
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Lady Bird Johnson
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
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Haim Ginott
“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”
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Author Unknown
“Children don’t care what you do for them. They care how you make them feel.”
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Author Unknown
“A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.”
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Lydia Maria Child
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!”
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Marian Wright Edelman
“If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.”
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Lucille Ball
“You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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Harold Hulbert
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.”
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Joe Houldsworth
“The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.”
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Giacomo Leopardi
“Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.”
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Red Skelton
“Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.”
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Dan Quayle
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”
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Author Unknown
“Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.”
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Plato
“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst love things.”
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Roger Lewin
“Too often we give children answer to remember rather than problems to solve.”
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Author Unknown
“The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them.”
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Psalm 127:3
“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD…”
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Clarence Darrow
“The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.”
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Charles R. Swindoll
"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
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Norman Douglas
"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
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Barbara Bush
"You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way."
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P.D. James
“If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
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Christopher Paolini
“The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.”
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Clarence Darrow
“The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.”
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John Gray
“It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.”
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John J. Plomp
“You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.”
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Bill Cosby
"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home."
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Clarence S. Darrow
"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."
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Edward, Duke of Windsor
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."
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Phyllis Diller
"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."
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King Edward VIII
“The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.”
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Author Unknown
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”
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Angela Schwindt
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
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Wayne Dyer
"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."
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Phyllis Diller
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
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Goethe
“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
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Barbara Kingsolver
“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
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Walt Streightiff
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
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Erma Bombeck
“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
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Franklin P. Jones
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
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Jill Bensley
“The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.”
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Dora Russell
“We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.”
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Lionel Kauffman
“Children are a great comfort in your old age -- and they help you reach it faster, too.”
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
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Terence
“It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.”
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Robert Gallagher
“Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.”
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
“Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.”
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Ray L. Wilbur
"The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation."
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Dwight L. Moody
"If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!"
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Malcolm de Chazal
“Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.”
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Barbara Walters
“Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.”
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Anatole Broyard
“There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.”
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Dorothy Parker
“The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.”
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Socrates
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
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Anatole Broyard
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
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Charles Wadsworth
"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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Author Unknown
"Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners."
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Author Unknown
"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."
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Dorothy Parker
"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."
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Dennis Fakes
"Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble."
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Francis Bacon
"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death."
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Sam Levenson
"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
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Ann Landers
"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."
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Confucius
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
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Bill Vaughn
“A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a…set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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John Wilmot
“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”
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Ben Bergor
“It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.”
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Monta Crane
“There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.”
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Franklin P. Jones
“Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.”
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P. J. O'Rourke
“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”
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Benjamin Spock
“There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.”
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Richard Evans
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
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Nelson Mandela
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
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Patrick McDonald
"Why is it that a child's death amounts to a tragedy, but the death of millions is merely a statistic?"
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Albert Einstein
“ The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
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Phyllis Diller
“We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching tem to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
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Abigail Van Buren
“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on the shoulders.”
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Nadia Boulanger
“Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”
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Ellen Glasgow
“The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.”
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Christopher Morley
“We call a child’s mind “small” simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
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Elizabeth Lawrence
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”
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John Betjeman
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”
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Sam Ewing
“When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.”
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Haim Ginott
“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.”
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Paula Poundstone
“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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Richard L. Evans
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
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Pablo Casals
“The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.”
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Mohandas Ghandi
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
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Doc Childre
"An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with — for you are a caretaker for those moments in time."
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Emma Goldman
"No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
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Nelson Mandela
"Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
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James C. Dobson
"Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations."
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Rosaleen Dickson
“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
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Marianne E. Neifert
“The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.
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Brad Pitt
"Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold."
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Stephanie Martson
“Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child’s future. A child’s self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.”
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David O. McKay
“The home is the first and most effective place for children to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control; the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.”
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