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... all children have creative power. More
... children do not take war seriously as war. War is soldiers and soldiers have not to be war... More
2) Perhaps they gathered once to delight in blossom,
but after the children were... More
A baby is God’s way of saying the world should go on. More
A bamboo stick makes a good child. More
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be... More
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of... More
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger... More
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. More
A child should always say what’s true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave... More
A dutiful child will have dutiful children; a disobedient one will be disobeyed. More
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. More
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders... More
A large tree may have some withered twigs; a large family may have some ne’er-do-well offspring. More
A little black thing among the snow
Crying “’weep, ‘weep,” in notes of... More
A mangy-headed child is fine, as long as he’s your own. More
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. More
A name with meaning could bring up a child,
Taking the child out of the parents’... More
A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place... More
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have... More
A pinecone does not fall far from the tree trunk. More
A sense of worthiness is a child’s most important need. More
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own... More
A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. More
A true friend of man; almost the only friend of human progress.... With his hospitable intellect... More
A two-week-old infant cries an average of one and a half hours every day. This increases to... More
A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief. More
A wise child pleases his father; a skinny dog shames his master. More
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid,... More
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is... More
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of... More
Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the... More
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it.... More
Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to... More
All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that... More
All parents occasionally have ambivalent feelings toward their children. We love our kids, but... More
Already the new-born children interpret love
In the voices of mothers. More
Always and everywhere children take an active role in the construction and acquisition of... More
Always remember that a child doesn’t have to be average to be normal. Children with very... More
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything... More
And now, dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly, flattering words, I... More
And plenitude of plan shall not suffice
Nor grief nor love shall be enough alone
To... More
And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray? More
And that their sleep be sound
I say this childermas
Who could not, at one time,
Have... More
And the child not caring to whom he climbs his prayer
Shall drown in a grief as deep as his... More
Answering questions can be a responsibility. Children think that their parents have all the... More
Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how... More
Anytime we react to behavior in our children that we dislike in ourselves, we need to proceed... More
As a parent, you can play three important roles in teaching your children about sex. As a model... More
As for Waldo, he died as the mist rises from the brook, which the sun will soon dart his rays... More
As if being eighty-five or ninety
and terrified and talked down to loudly
and pushed... More
As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our... More
As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that... More
As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced. More
Barnes are blessings. More
Because it is not always easy for an adult to predict what inaccurate ideas a child may have, it... More
Because the young child feels with such intensity, he experiences sorrows that seem inconsolable... More
Being a parent is such serious business that we dare not take it too seriously. Children are... More
Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too... More
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. More
Better to cheat an old grey head than to trick a small child. More
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred... More
Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted... More
Child with continuing cling issued his No in final fire,
Kissed back the colored maid,
... More
Child, the current of your breath is six days long.
You lie, a small knuckle on my white... More
Children ... seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the... More
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in their having it! The more helpless... More
Children also need opportunities to practice being less than perfect. They can afford to be ill... More
Children are as destined biologically to break away as we are, emotionally, to hold on and... More
Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in... More
children are dying my death
and eating crumbs of my life. More
Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others... More
Children are like fingers: some long, some short. More
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life. More
Children are the flowers of life, but let them grow on someone else’s windowsill. More
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they... More
Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see... More
Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are... More
Children do not care if their mother is not beautiful. More
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to... More
Children have no covers on their mouths. More
Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the... More
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless. More
Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a... More
Children now accuse their parents of ingratitude. More
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval. More
Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the... More
Children pay little attention to their parent’s teachings, but reproduce their characters... More
Children pick up words as pigeons peas,
And utter them again as God shall please. More
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. More
Children treat their friends differently than they treat the other people in their lives. A... More
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. More
Children who are not spoken to by live and responsive adults will not learn to speak properly.... More
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. More
Children, confine your lights in jellied rules;
Resemble graves; be metaphysical... More
Children, if you dare to think
Of the greatness, rareness, muchness,
Fewness of this... More
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to... More
Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. More
Children’s mouths speak the truth. More
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. More

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