Children

(79 votes)   What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(78 votes)   A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Anonymous

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(78 votes)   Never have children, only grand children.

Gore Vidal
1925-, American Novelist, Critic

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(78 votes)   What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist

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(76 votes)   To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

June Jordan
1939-, American Poet, Civil Rights Activist

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

Dorothy Parker

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(74 votes)   Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

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(74 votes)   Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot Romola

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(73 votes)   We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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(72 votes)   Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.

Robert Gallagher

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(71 votes)   A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-, American Author, Columnist

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(71 votes)   Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(70 votes)   My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

Joan Rivers

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(70 votes)   There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(69 votes)   Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dr. James C. Dobson
American Psychologist, Author

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