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Children
Children have neither past nor future;
and that which seldom happens to us,
they rejoice in the present.
?Jean de La Bruyere
Children today are tyrants.
They contradict their parents,
gobble their food, and
tyrannize their teachers.
?Socrates
We never know the love of our parents
for us until we have become parents.
?Henry Ward Beecher
A person should not promise to
give a child something and then
not give it, because in that
way the child learns to lie.
?Babylonian Talmud
In every real man a child is
hidden that wants to play.
?Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
When the first baby laughed for the first
time, the laugh broke into a thousand
pieces and they all went skipping about,
and that was the beginning of fairies.
And now when every new baby is
born its first laugh becomes a fairy.
So there ought to be
one fairy for every boy or girl.
?James Matthew Barrie
Children have more need
of models than critics.
?Joseph Joubert
A man never stands as tall as
when he kneels to help a child.
?Knights of Pythagoras
Train up a child in the way he
should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it.
?Bible, Proverbs 22:6
A child understands fear, and
the hurt and hate it brings.
?Nadine Gordimer
I take my children everywhere, but
they always find their way back home.
?Robert Orben
Forgiveness is the answer to the
child's dream of a miracle by
which what is broken is made
whole again, what is
soiled is again made clean.
?Dag Hammarskjold
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
