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-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' quotes[1]='To be free to learn, Children need to be free to dream.
-Unknown' quotes[2]='Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them..
-Lady Bird Johnson' quotes[3]='There are 3 ways to get something done. (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it.
-Unknown' quotes[4]='Soft is the heart of a child. Do not harden it.
-Unknown' quotes[5]='Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
-James Baldwin' quotes[6]='Children are a poor man\'s riches.
-English Proverb' quotes[7]='Children need models rather than critics.
-Joseph Joubert' quotes[8]='Children spell love T-I-M-E.
-Dr. Anthony P. Witham' quotes[9]='The more I encourage a child to think for himself the more he will care what I think.
-Unknown' quotes[10]='Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he is in trouble.
-Dennis Fakes' quotes[11]='Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
-Zig Ziglar' quotes[12]='Children need love. Especially when they don\'t deserve it.
-Harold Hulbert' quotes[13]='A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
-Unknown' quotes[14]='Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
-Elbert Hubbard' quotes[15]='Before you were conceived I wanted you, Before you were born I loved you, Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.
-Maureen Hawkins' quotes[16]='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.
-Harry S. Truman' quotes[17]='Our children are watching us live, and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.
-Wilfred A. Peterson' quotes[18]='A torn jacket is soon mended, But hard words bruise the heart of a child.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' quotes[19]='The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant.. and let the air out of the tires.
-Dorothy Parker' quotes[20]='Before I had kids I went home after work to rest. Now I go to work to rest.
-Simon Ruddell' quotes[21]='Parenthood: The art of bringing up children without putting them down.
-Unknown' quotes[22]='In raising my children I have lost my mind but found my soul.
-Unknown' quotes[23]='It is easier to build a boy then to mend a man.
-Charles C. Gavin' quotes[24]='Parents need to fill a child\'s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can\'t poke holes in it to drain it dry.
-Alvin Price' quotes[25]='As parents we never stand so tall as when we stoop to help our children.
-Dr. Anthony P. Whitman' quotes[26]='The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
-Jan Blaustone' quotes[27]='The best thing you can give your children, next to good habits, are good memories.
-Unknown' quotes[28]='Better than being the head of the family is being the heart of it.
-Unknown' quotes[29]='If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle Take two aspirin and Keep away from children.
-Unknown' quotes[30]='In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
-Friedrich Nietzsche' quotes[31]='It takes a village to raise a child.
-African proverb' quotes[32]='Childhood: 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.
-Ambrose Bierce' quotes[33]='Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person\'s character lies in their own hands.
-Anne Frank' quotes[34]='Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
-Annie Sullivan' quotes[35]='Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
-Bill Cosby' quotes[36]='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 Vaughn' quotes[37]='It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you.
-Bureau of Social Hygiene study, 1928' quotes[38]='One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
-Chinese proverb' quotes[39]='The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
-Clarence Darrow' quotes[40]='It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
-Colette' quotes[41]='The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.
-Dorothy Parker' quotes[42]='Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.
-Eda LeShan' quotes[43]='Making the decision to have a child - it\'s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
-Elizabeth Stone' quotes[44]='Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.
-Ellen Galinsky' quotes[45]='There\'s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
-Erma Bombeck' quotes[46]='No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
-Florida Scott-Maxwell' quotes[47]='You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
-Franklin P. Jones' quotes[48]='Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
-Garrison Keillor' quotes[49]='How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
-George Washington Carver' quotes[50]='At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you\'ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
-Golda Meir' quotes[51]='A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
-Groucho Marx' quotes[52]='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.
-Harry S Truman' quotes[53]='Children are our most valuable natural resource.
-Herbert Hoover' quotes[54]='There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
-Hodding Carter' quotes[55]='If you bungle raising your children, I don\'t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' quotes[56]='Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
-James Baldwin' quotes[57]='For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
-James Baldwin' quotes[58]='Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
-Jane Nelson' quotes[59]='The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.
-Jill Bensley' quotes[60]='I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
-John Adams' quotes[61]='You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
-John J. Plomp' quotes[62]='Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
-John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester' quotes[63]='Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life\'s longing for itself.
-Kahlil Gibran' quotes[64]='Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
-Koran' quotes[65]='You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
-Leo Rosten' quotes[66]='When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
-Louis Pasteur' quotes[67]='Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
-Lydia Maria Child' quotes[68]='If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won\'t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
-Marian Wright Edelman' quotes[69]='If we don\'t stand up for children, then we don\'t stand for much.
-Marian Wright Edelman' quotes[70]='The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction?
-Marian Wright Edelman' quotes[71]='To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
-Marilyn French' quotes[72]='Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.
-Mark Twain' quotes[73]='When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
-Mark Twain - attributed in error' quotes[74]='Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life
-Maureen Hawkins' quotes[75]='Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-Michael Levine' quotes[76]='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.
-P. J. O\'Rourke' quotes[77]='All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-Pablo Picasso' quotes[78]='Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.
-Pamela Glenconner' quotes[79]='I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that\'s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
-Pearl S. Buck' quotes[80]='Don\'t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
-Rabbinical saying' quotes[81]='If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
-Rachel Carson' quotes[82]='If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
-Rachel Carson' quotes[83]='There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson' quotes[84]='Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
-Roger Lewin' quotes[85]='Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
-Sidonie Gruenberg' quotes[86]='To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.
-Sidonie Gruenberg' quotes[87]='Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
-St. Francis Xavier' quotes[88]='The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
-Theodore Hesburgh' quotes[89]='People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don\'t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
-Thich Nhat Hanh' quotes[90]='Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It\'s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
-Thomas Moore' quotes[91]='Two different theories exist concerning the origin of children: the theory of Sexual reproduction, and the theory of the stork. Many people believe in the theory of sexual reproduction because they have been taught this theory at school. In reality, however, many of the world\'s leading scientists are in favor of the theory of the stork. If the theory of sexual reproduction is taught in schools, it must only be taught as a theory and not as the truth. Alternative theories, such as the theory of the stork, must also be taught.
-Unknown - from the Institute for Stork Research and Science' quotes[92]='A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark. What? Why? How? I never cease to marvel at the recurring miracle of growth, to be fascinated by the mystery and wonder of this brave enthusiasm.
-Victoria Wagner' quotes[93]='It is a wise father that knows his own child.
-William Shakespeare' quotes[94]='Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
-Jean de la Bruyere ' quotes[95]='Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
-G.K. Chesterton' quotes[96]='The great man is he who does not lose his child\'s-heart.
-Mencius, Book IV' quotes[97]='So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
-Gaston Bachelard' quotes[98]='When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
-Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974' quotes[99]='I wish I didn\'t know now what I didn\'t know then.
-Bob Seger, "Against the Wind"' quotes[100]='Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-Pablo Picasso' quotes[101]='One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe' quotes[102]='Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
-Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943' quotes[103]='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.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson' quotes[104]='The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
-Rebecca Pepper Sinkler' quotes[105]='Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn\'t go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
-Robert Fulghum' quotes[106]='When you\'re green you\'re growing, and when you\'re ripe you start to rot.
-Ray Kroc' quotes[107]='Adults are obsolete children.
-Dr. Seuss' quotes[108]='A grownup is a child with layers on.
-Woody Harrelson' quotes[109]='The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
-Eugene Ionesco' quotes[110]='I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
-Leo Buscaglia' quotes[111]='One of the virtues of being very young is that you don\'t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
-Sam Levenson' quotes[112]='Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
-Norman Podhoretz' quotes[113]='Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862' quotes[114]='O men, grown sick with toil and care,
Leave for awhile the crowded mart;
O women, sinking with despair,
Weary of limb and faint of heart,
Forget your years to-day and come
As children back to childhood\'s house.
-Phoebe Cary' quotes[115]='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.
-Brian Aldiss' quotes[116]='Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o\'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
-Barbara Jordan' quotes[117]='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.
-Friedrich Nietzsche' quotes[118]='He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein' quotes[119]='If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe' quotes[120]='What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
-Sigmund Freud' quotes[121]='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.
-Rachel Carson' quotes[122]='There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer' quotes[123]='To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
-Theodore Roosevelt, American adventurer and president (1858-1919)' quotes[124]='The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
-Plutarch, Greek biographer, philosopher and priest of Apollo (45-125 A.D.)' quotes[125]='Don\'t worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you.
-Robert Fulghum, American author (b. 1937)' quotes[126]='Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
-Proverbs, 22:6' quotes[127]='You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
-Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American novelist and poet (1883-1931)' quotes[128]='Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
-John Locke, English philosopher (1632-1704)' quotes[129]='The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
-Peter de Vries, American novelist (1910-1993)' quotes[130]='But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy: that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.
-Plato, Greek philosopher (c. 428-c. 348)' quotes[131]='Children need models rather than critics.
-Joseph Joubert, French essayist (1752-1824)' quotes[132]='He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
-Unknown' quotes[133]='It takes a long time to grow young.
-Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (1881-1973)' quotes[134]='Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
-Gertrude Stein, American writer (1874-1946)' quotes[135]='It takes a whole village to raise a child.
-Ashanti proverb' quotes[136]='Educate the heart. Let us have good men.
-Hiram Powers, American sculptor (1805-1873)' quotes[137]='The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
-Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384-322 B.C.)' quotes[138]='The question for the child is not ‘Do I want to be good?’ but ‘Whom do I want to be like?’
-Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American child psychologist, author (1903-1990)' quotes[139]='Example has more followers than reason.
-Christian Nevell Bovee, American author and lawyer (1820-1904)' quotes[140]='Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-Omar N. Bradley, American general (1893-1981)' quotes[141]='If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children.
-Mohandas Gandhi, Indian nonviolent civil rights leader (1869-1948)' quotes[142]='Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, Supreme Court justice (1841-1935) ' quotes[143]='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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