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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?
People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.
Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.
Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.
I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?
Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.
I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.
As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral
There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.
I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech
It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.
We're talking about the chemical lobotomy. We're talking about the chemical straightjacketing of our children.
Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.
It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day
God loves his children more than any earthly parent, so think what your kindness to his children means to him.
Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.
Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.
So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.