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• When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

  Anna Pavlova

  Love, Children, Butterfly

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• I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

  Jane Pauley

  Mother, Children, Concern

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• There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

  Doris Lessing

  Children, Intelligent, Boring

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• Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sex, Children, Humorous

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.220, Vintage

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• I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

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• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  Francine Pascal

  Children, Writing, Play

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• Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Humility, World

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Children, Yesterday

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• See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Children, Vulnerable, Breathe

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity”, p.332, Workman Publishing

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• Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

  Barbara Walters

  Children, Party, Adults

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• Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.

  Geronimo

  Mother, Children, Warrior

  Geronimo, S. M. Barrett (2016). “Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Names, Mountain

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

  Juliet Marillier

  Children, Thinking, Style

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• I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

  Margaret Mahy

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Rocks, Fishing

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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• I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Men, Years

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• I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Children, Writing, I Can

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

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• [Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

  Robin McKinley

  Children, Reading, Adventure

  Robin McKinley (2016). “The Blue Sword”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

  Charlotte Gray

  Dream, Children, Heart

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• You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Children, Teenager

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Children, Home

  "Mercy". Book by Jodi Picoult, 1996.

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• Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Pull Ups, Manners

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• I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Purple, Parent

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