Children

(107 votes)   Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Robert Pollok
1798-1827, Scottish Religious Poet

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(104 votes)   Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(99 votes)   Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Shirley Hazzard
1931-, Australian-born American Author

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(98 votes)   For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(94 votes)   Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Clark Moustakas
Humanistic Psychologist

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(93 votes)   A teenager is always too tired to hold a dishcloth, but never too tired to hold a phone.

Anonymous

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(93 votes)   We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(92 votes)   A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.

Carl Sandburg

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(86 votes)   A child miseducated is a child lost.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(86 votes)   The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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(86 votes)   What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Ann Landers
1918-, American Advice Columnist

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(84 votes)   Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(82 votes)   For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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(81 votes)   A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(79 votes)   Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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