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• Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  God, Baby, Newborn Child

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• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Mother, Smart, Play

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• Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

  A. S. W. Rosenbach

  Book, Reading, Wonderland

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• I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

  Boris Becker

  My Children, Raised

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• When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Talking, People, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

  Gillian Anderson

  Jobs, Dad, School

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• It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Running, Government, Stupidity

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 10, 2009.

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• The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families.

  Robert Irvine

  Responsibility, Thinking, Parent

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• Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

  Gene Hackman

  Parent, Done, Cases

  "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

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• One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

  Thomas Dreier

  Intelligent, Creative, Elements

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• The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

  Susie Orbach

  Jobs, Kids, Parent

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Discipline, Resentment

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• I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

  P. T. Barnum

  Laughing, Exhibitions, Flattery

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• The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.

  Fred Rogers

  Parenting, Helping Others, Unique

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

  M. Scott Peck

  Discipline, Giving, Needs

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Order, Discipline, Personality

  Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.348, Columbia University Press

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• We children learned responsibility automatically.

  James Earl Jones

  Responsibility

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

  Lou Gerstner

  College, Parent, Four

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• When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying, hiding, or fighting. . . Unless we are taught to face our problems directly and work through them, the pattern of avoidance will be repeated; it can be a natural, accepted way to act.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Fighting, Encounters, Doe

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• My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

  Graham Swift

  Mother, Memories, Comfort

  "How did I end up becoming a novelist?". Interview with Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  Tanith Lee

  Mother, Fairy Stories, Invention

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• I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

  Angelina Grimke

  Employment, Occupation, Honorable

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• What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

  James Hansen

  Issues, Moral, Planets

  "James Hansen on the Tar Sands Pipeline Protest, the Obama Administration and Intergenerational Justice". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2011.

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• My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

  Shalom Harlow

  Parent

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• I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

  Annie Lennox

  Giving, Want, Protect

  "Why Annie Lennox is ready to move on". Interview with Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2009.

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