Children Quotes - Page 13

• I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

  Alex Haley

  Book, Successful, Parent

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• All television is children's television.

  Richard Adler

  Television

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• My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Life, Wedding

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• The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

  Grace Abbott

  School, Democracy, Age

  Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”

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• Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

  William Morris Hunt

  Writing, Later In Life, Effort

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• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Education, Father, School

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Heartbreak, Dog

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

  Clay Aiken

  Survival, Causes, Committed

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• Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.

  Brad Pitt

  Health, Drug, Doe

  "Hyde Park centre stage of greatest show on earth" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2005.

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• How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

  Grace Lee Boggs

  School, Cities, Prison

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• Something you consider bad may bring out your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  May, Talent, Your Children

  François-René de Chateaubriand (2014). “Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb”, p.42, Penguin UK

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• As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.

  Ted Danson

  School, Mean, Kids

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• The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

  Walden Bello

  Hunger And Poverty, Land, Suffering

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• What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.

  Carol Bellamy

  Girl, School, Commitment

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• Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

  Harry Belafonte

  School, Fighting, Parent

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• The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law.

  Carol Bellamy

  Country, Agreement, Law

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• There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Spiritual, Morning

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.260, Open Road Media

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• Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

  Khalil Gibran

  Archer, Arrows, Hands

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• 35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

  Jeff Bridges

  Country, War, Usa

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• I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

  Erma Bombeck

  Time, Views, Years

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Teacher, Teaching, Past

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• Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

  Charles de Lint

  Drawing, Effort, Too Much

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Infancy Is, History, Former

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• As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Desire, Genius

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Twitter post from Apr 21, 2016

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