Children

(241 votes)   Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Bette Davis
1908-1989, American Actress, Producer

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(225 votes)   Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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(207 votes)   You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

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(152 votes)   Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(144 votes)   The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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(143 votes)   If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

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(135 votes)   Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin

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(133 votes)   The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(132 votes)   There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(131 votes)   Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(131 votes)   What is done to children, they will do to society.

Karl A. Menninger
1893-1990, American Psychiatrist

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(128 votes)   Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(128 votes)   I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.

Jack Handey

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(123 votes)   Adults are obsolete children.

Dr. Seuss
1904-1991, American Writer and Illustrator of Children's Books

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(118 votes)   Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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