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Children
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Best Quotes about Children
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
Ruskin, John
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Montessori, Maria
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Jones, Franklin P.
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Wilbur, Ray L.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
FeNelon, Francois
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Jones, Franklin P.
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Picasso, Pablo
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jackson, Jesse
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.
Dobson, Dr. James C.
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.
Vaughan, Bill
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
Whitehorn, Katharine
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Waitley, Denis
What is done to children, they will do to society.
Menninger, Karl A.
Children need models rather than critics.
Joubert, Joseph
Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
Decter, Midge
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
Auden, W. H.
We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.
Eucharista Ward
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Abbott, Lyman
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]
Bible
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverb, English
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Curie, Madame Marie
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Morley, Christopher
It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.
Torrie, Alfred
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Tauscher, Stacia
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
Jordan, June
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Chase, Alexander
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Angelou, Maya
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Wilmot, John
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Mead, Margaret
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. 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.
Gibran, Kahlil
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
Meynell, Alice
Children are the keys of paradise.
Stoddard, Richard Henry
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
Wilder, Thornton
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas
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.
Angelou, Maya
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Davis, Bette
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.
Anatole Broyard
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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