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

Fielding, Henry on children   

"Children have more need of models than of critics."

Coats, Carolyn on children   

"When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world."

Ziglar, Zig on children
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"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

Wilde, Oscar on children
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"The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation."

Wilbur, Ray L. on children
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"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."

Wiesel, Elie on children   

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

Waitley, Denis on children
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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."

Unknown, Source on children   

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

Unknown, Source on children   

"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."

Truman, Harry S on children
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"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings."

Tracy, Brian on children
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"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

Tauscher, Stacia on children
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"In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."

Shan, Eda J. Le on children   

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

Baldwin, James on children
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"Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life."

Bradshaw, John on children   

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."

Elk, Black on children   

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

Dyer, Wayne on children
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"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."

Duncan, Isadora on children   

"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built."

Dobson, Dr. James C. on children   

"Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children."

Diana, Princess of Wales on children
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"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."

Cox, Marcelene on children   

"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

Adams, Abigail on learning
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"You can't learn less."

Fuller, Buckminster on learning   

"There is no time of life past learning something."

Ambrose, St. on learning
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"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."

Cox, Marcelene on children   

"There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it."

Crane, Monta on children
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"Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much."

Cosby, Bill on children
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"The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present."

Ruskin, John on children
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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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on children   

"Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on children
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"Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it."

Hulbert, Harold on children
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"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on children   

"Children are our most valuable natural resource."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on children   

"In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival."

Deming, W. Edwards on learning
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"Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on children
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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."

Bachelard, Gaston on children
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"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

Confucius on learning
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"If only, If only, life was as simple as it was during childhood."

Unknown, Source on childhood
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"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

Proust, Marcel on childhood
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