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Children and fools always speak the truth. — Mark Twain

As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order. — Shaquille O'Neal

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine

Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child. — Stuart Duncan

But mostly because he could be himself - never needing to bend. — Niki Alling

Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I — Elizabeth Gilbert

We met the children where they were in order to get them where they needed to be. — Kristine Barnett

We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens. — Grant Morrison

But that was always the case. People hardly ever saw their children as they really were. — Rohinton Mistry

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind. — Mitt Romney

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt? — Dorothea Dix

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children. — Nicholas Kristof

Reality is like a fine wine," he said to me. "It will not appeal to children. — Donald Miller

They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am. — Stephen Colbert

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child. — Ted Kooser

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar. — Simeon Strunsky

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world. — Betty Williams

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom. — Paul Tillich

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children. — Perry Nodelman

Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time. — J. A. Spender

Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today. — Michael Bennet

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. — Richard Dawkins

Having children really changes your priorities. — Cindy Crawford

When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. — Tedd Tripp

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. — Rosa Parks

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

God put the wiggle in children and our job as parent-educators is to work with it, not take it out of them. — Pamela Read Von Gohren

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number. — Jane Austen

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment. — Vivian Vande Velde

Have unconditional love to your children no matter what happens. Give them time even in the midst of this busy life - be one on one with them. — Jennie Finch

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me. — Alexander Shulgin

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future. — Bruce Mau

I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them. — Jackie Gleason

Mr John Langdon Davies warns women 'that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary'. — Virginia Woolf

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story. — Malorie Blackman

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs. — Lawrence Summers

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time. — Jan Brett

I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember. — Keri Smith

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it — Brian Andreas

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. — Barbara Delinsky

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official. — Bob Keeshan

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. — E. E. Cummings

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do. — Brene Brown

One worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed - but after all, we were children. — William Landay

Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family. — Kathleen Sebelius

When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell. — Alistair Begg

... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. — Louisa May Alcott

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot

The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children. — Donna Rice Hughes

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it. — Karl Kraus

From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents. — Caroline Pratt

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves. — Banksy

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings. — Whoopi Goldberg

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now. — Donalyn Miller

Each house has its own signature, unknown to all except the grown children who go back to visit. — Anita Shreve

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is ... — Carl Sagan

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually. — Gordon Brown

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think. — Agnes Repplier

Children see magic because they look for it. — Christopher Moore

My best creation is my children. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Children are our future. Unfortunately, we are their past. — Ljupka Cvetanova

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad. — Martin Freeman

I have fabulous children. — Victoria Osteen

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world — Dorothy Nolte

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object. — Anne Sullivan Macy

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children. — David Neeleman

Our children and grand-children will not make us people, their availability does not make us different from animal — Sunday Adelaja

Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification. — William J. Seymour

Only children believe they're capable of everything. — Paulo Coelho

Every time I look at my children, they remind me to work harder and become a better man. — Dwyane Wade

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing. — Minnie Driver

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up — Lewis Carroll

By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped. — Walter Isaacson

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that. — Michael Leunig

Love and advise your children unconditionally. — Eraldo Banovac

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before — Jhumpa Lahiri

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children. — David R. Ellis

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.. — Wm. Paul Young

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land! — Yasser Arafat

It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright. — Helen Steiner Rice

I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks. — Vince Staples

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. — Jackie Kennedy

Meghann knew however strong the evil inside Simon Baldevar was, it was tempered by the love he had for her and their children. — Trisha Baker

Soon the two children will walk down Edgehill Road from the bus stop like burros under their knapsacks, — Elizabeth Alexander

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem! — Roy Moore

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them. — Gordon Neufeld

In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children. — Norman Geisler

If children could vote, Jesse Jackson would be our next president. — Fred Allen

Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things. — Carew Papritz

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food. — Alexandra Paul

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child. — Max Lucado