Children Quotes - Page 18

• A child is the root of the heart.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Heart, Roots

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Dream, Parenting

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.39, BookBaby

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• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

  P. D. James

  Parenting, Happy Kid, Giving

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  George Orwell

  Time, Humorous, Eye

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Rip, Heart

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• The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

  King Edward VIII

  Parenting, America, Way

  Look 5 Mar. 1957

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• I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up very softly, until he is afraid that it will burst.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Blow, Soap, Firsts

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• A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

  Thomas Szasz

  Family, Maturity, Age

  The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"

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• The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Life, Parenting

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• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Forgiveness, Dream, Broken

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Never have more children than you have car windows.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

  Bob Harper

  Kids, Parenting, Role Models

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Real, War

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Children are all foreigners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Success, Foreigners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Writing, Literature

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• Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Book, Humor

  "Mitch All Together". Live album by Mitch Hedberg, December 9, 2003.

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• Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Political, Epigraphs

  Essays of Elia "The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple" (1823)

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• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Friendship, Family

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• 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 Vaughan

  Happiness, Baby, Fun

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• If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

  Brian Tracy

  Live Life, Inspiration, Parenting

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 15, 2014

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• Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

  John Betjeman

  Dark, Sight, Smell

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• Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Garden, Feet

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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