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Children and fools always speak the truth. — Mark Twain

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

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time. — Kofi Annan

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

I was so determined not to pass on to my children what I perceived to be the faults of my upbringing. — Roger Lloyd-Pack

Children often sang, adults seldom. At what age did the singing stop? — Mary Jo Putney

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them. — Thomas Friedman

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

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

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

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world. — Hayao Miyazaki

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

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

As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette. — Carlo Collodi

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

You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values. — William J. Clinton

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

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it. — David Hockney

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

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed! — Djuna Barnes

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

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. — Robert Breault

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel. — L. Tobin

The point isn't just whether children know what to expect; it's whether what they've come to expect makes sense. — Alfie Kohn

The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are. — Vincent Louis Carrella

In 1997, cognitive psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen found that the fathers and grandfathers of children with autism were more likely to be engineers. — Steve Silberman

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence. — Swami Dhyan Giten

There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy. — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself. — Mark Twain

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble. — John Lancaster Spalding

There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an 'idea'. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave. — Leah Broadby

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children. — Eve Best

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

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking. — Kailash Satyarthi

For the children around the world without a home, say a prayer tonight. — Third Day

PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK ... Like a YO YO!! — Tanya Masse

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed. — Mark Haddon

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions. — James E. Faust

STAY THE COURSE BY FORCE! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

How are we supposed to teach our children compassion if we remove all inconveniences from the world around them?" "But — Penny Reid

Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence. — Jan Jansen

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living. — Kevin Kwan

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity. — Hilda Solis

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom. — Maria Montessori

Children and mothers never truly part
Bound in the beating of each other's hearts. — Charlotte Gray

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers. — Chris Galford

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

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family. — Pope Francis

Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously? — Jim Jefferies

The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

carts and made their way to the two rooms kept for them. Tired from their travels, the children — Sunila Gupte

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. — Desmond Tutu

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

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

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

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

We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children. — Randi Weingarten

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

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

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

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

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

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

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