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• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Philosophy
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  Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Children, Life

  Tags in Slavery, Born

• I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Topics in Children

  Tags in People, Design, Books
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  Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  Maya Angelou

  Topics in Children, Inspirational

  Tags in Good, Habit, Reading, Books

• The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

  Edward VIII

  Topics in Ambition, America, Children

  Tags in Parents
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  Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Carry, Always, Will
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  It is vital that when educating our children’s brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

  Dalai Lama

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Educating, Brain

• I have a children’s book already out and my autobiography.

  Della Reese

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Autobiography

• I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

  Phyllis Diller

  Topics in Children, Humor

  Tags in Material Possessions
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  Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Topics in Children, Inspirational

  Tags in Learning, Own

• I’m a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned – and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that’s worth.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Representative

• There is virtually nothing I wouldn’t be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Topics in Children, Life

• Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can’t write, can surely review.

  James Russell Lowell

  Topics in Children

• When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually.

  Steven Wright

  Topics in Children, Humor

  Tags in Sandbox

• Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Creatures

• Children can write poetry and then, unless they’re poets, they stop when reach puberty.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Poetry

• As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Nation

• It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Community

• It’s like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it’s remembered.

  Denis Mostyn Norden

  Topics in Children, Memory

• It just didn’t feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.

  Denene Millner

  Topics in Children

  Tags in dream