• But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  3.7 · 48 votes · 129 reads

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• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.2 · 22 votes · 109 reads

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• Children and drunks always speak the truth.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.3 · 21 votes · 186 reads

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• Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 8 votes · 198 reads

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• Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 29 votes · 70 reads

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• Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 116 reads

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• Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 153 reads

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 26 reads

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• Children need models rather than critics.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.2 · 8 votes · 100 reads

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• Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollecti

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 165 reads

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• Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.2 · 6 votes · 67 reads

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• Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.7 · 17 votes · 53 reads

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• Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.4 · 39 votes · 81 reads

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• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

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  Gaston Bachelard

  PoetFrench1884 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 26 reads

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• Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  4.1 · 53 votes · 94 reads

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• Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 173 reads

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• For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.0 · 18 votes · 93 reads

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• For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.2 · 34 votes · 0 reads

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• Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 23 votes · 61 reads

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• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 56 votes · 195 reads

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• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 152 reads

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• I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 142 reads

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• I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.8 · 24 votes · 94 reads

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• I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that i

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.3 · 12 votes · 73 reads

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• I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 187 reads

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• I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 36 reads

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• I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.5 · 20 votes · 123 reads

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• I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 55 reads

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• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 102 reads

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• If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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  Maria Montessori

  EducatorItaly1870 · 19th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 70 reads

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• If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 198 reads

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• Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 111 reads

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• In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 51 votes · 59 reads

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• Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 29 votes · 192 reads

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• Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.9 · 30 votes · 18 reads

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• Little girl's definition of conscience: ''Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does. ''

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 19 votes · 139 reads

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• Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 116 reads

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• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.4 · 43 votes · 30 reads

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• Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 156 reads

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• Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 45 reads

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• One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 22 reads

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• Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 22 votes · 89 reads

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• She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

  

  Gabriel García Márquez

  WriterColombian1927 · 20th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 44 reads

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• The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 55 votes · 132 reads

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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.8 · 24 votes · 174 reads

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 121 reads

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• The child is the father of the man.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 51 reads

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• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.2 · 43 votes · 18 reads

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• The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 156 reads

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• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 100 reads

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• The wildest colts make the best horses.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.1 · 41 votes · 181 reads

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• There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.7 · 39 votes · 71 reads

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• There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 1 reads

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• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 53 reads

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• There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.0 · 15 votes · 21 reads

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• There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 10 votes · 101 reads

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• To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.7 · 45 votes · 91 reads

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• Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 63 votes · 180 reads

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• Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 4 reads

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• We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.0 · 28 votes · 103 reads

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• What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  4.2 · 43 votes · 21 reads

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• What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 33 votes · 100 reads

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• When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 3 reads

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• When I consider how little of a rarity children are - that every street and blind alley swarms with them - that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance - that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.3 · 22 votes · 196 reads

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• Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.9 · 57 votes · 131 reads

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• With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 31 votes · 55 reads

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• You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 168 reads

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• Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 100 reads

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