Children Quotes - Page 19

• If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

  Bette Davis

  Mom, Mother, Parenting

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• Be gentle with the young.

  Juvenal

  Attitude, Young, Gentle

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• A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

  Daniel Dennett

  Islands, Empathy, Desert

  "Daniel Dennett: 'I don't like theory of mind". Interview with Carole Jahme, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

  R. D. Laing

  Imbeciles, Fool, Dirty Minds

  "The Politics of Experience". Book by Ronald David Laing, p. 58, 1967.

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  A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Birthday, Family

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

  Jodi Picoult

  Parenting, Talking, Littles

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• The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

  Dave Eggers

  Cutting, Building, Cathedrals

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.93, Vintage

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• The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Kids, Care, Want

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• I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe.

  Henry Kirke White

  Mother, School, Dark

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• Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Family, Business

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Childhood, Doe, Influence

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• Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Mother, Fighting, Majority

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• Beauty is not caused. It is.

  Emily Dickinson

  Beauty

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Alfred Leete Hampson (1929). “Further poems of Emily Dickinson: withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia”

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• I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

  Gordie Howe

  Sports, Learning, Kids

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• I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

  Matt Damon

  Inspirational, Kids, Thinking

  "Matt Damon: I Want to 'Raise My Four Girls to Be Strong Women' " by Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 21, 2010.

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• The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

  Jean Kerr

  Real, Humorous, Parenting

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Science, Long Ago

  "V 65: New Challenges for human communications, Volume 4". Book by International Center for the Typographic Arts, Southern Illinois University, 1965.

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• The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

  Robert Breault

  World, Our Lives

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• Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children in America, however, see a very different picture-one in which children are victims of terrible discrimination, prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the protection they need most is to have the protection of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full persons under the law.

  Richard Farson

  Real, Views, Law

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• Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Girl, Strong, Boys

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 50, 1895.

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• Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

  Judy Collins

  Speaks Out, Use, Behalf

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• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

  Khalil Gibran

  Archer, Arrows, May

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

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