A child is the root of the heart.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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.
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.
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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.
Never have more children than you have car windows.
Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.
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.
Children are all foreigners.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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.
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.
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.
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
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.
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