Quotes on Children
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
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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 Truman
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
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We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes.
Buckminster Fuller
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Parents who are both conscientious and realistic discover sooner or later that they cannot do the job to their own complete satisfaction, much less to their children's complete satisfaction.
Thomas Sowell
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard
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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Jonas Salk
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you haven’t time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.
Frank Clark
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones
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When a child asks to join the party, let him. When he wants to help clean the garage, find a way to include him. Of course, not every project or adult gathering is appropriate for every child. My observation is that the more wholesome an adult’s lifestyle, the fewer gatherings are off-limits to children.
Clancy Cross
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Buckminster Fuller
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Discipline for sin, not for dirt. Don't mind dirt or a mess if your boys are busy and happy.
Sharon Bomgaars
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This is the context.
This is the source.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
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Every son is his father's apprentice, studying not his dad's profession but his way of living, thinking, and behaving.
Meg Meeker
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This is the source.
Little boys fight, and men take each other's money.
Lawton Grantham
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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Kelland
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Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
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[I]n all my years of private practice I've never heard one of my young clients (the children) mention "quality time." All a child knows is that he wants your time and your attention, whether it's to watch him do somersaults and cartwheels or to take him for a Big Mac. In trying to find time for your children, don't worry too much about how much "quality" is in it. Give them all the time you can and the quality will take care of itself.
Kevin Leman
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If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
John Holt
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz
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