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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
We are all a quarter good, a quarter bad, a quarter animal and a quarter child which equals a whole bunch of crazy.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
I believe that all people living together in unity is one of the most important messages we can teach our children.
My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.
Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.
Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children
I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.
I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
The Israelis have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you.
Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!
Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.
See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.
(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.
No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.
The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.
Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.