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Children Quotes
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn’t known you long enough.
Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in moods, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement mixer long after one’s interest in the topic has waned.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that l could bring to it.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. . . There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
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.
