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| We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~ Stacia Tauscher |
| You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~ Franklin P. Jones |
| In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." ~ Robert Brault |
| I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~ Liz Armbruster |
| A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often. ~ Author Unknown |
| We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up. ~ Christopher Morley |
| A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~ Author Unknown |
| Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~ Harold Hulbert |
| Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. ~ William Stafford |
| The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ~ Robert Brault |
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| Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~ Neil Postman, |
| Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~ Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health |
| Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~ Fran Lebowitz |
| Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~ Rabindranath Tagore |
| You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, |
| 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. ~ Bill Vaughan |
| If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ~ Pearl S. Buck |
| In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ~ Thomas Szasz |
| Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next. ~ Franklin P. Jones |
| Children make you want to start life over. ~ Muhammad Ali |
| Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~ Not Your Average Dictionary |
| I am fond of children – except boys. ~ Lewis Carroll |
| Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said. ~ Author Unknown |
| A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice – especially when she’s taking a nap. ~ Author Unknown |
| A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children. ~ Robert Benchley |
| The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four – of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. ~ Jim Trelease, |
| Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. ~ François Duc de la Rochefoucauld |