Children

(68 votes)   She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1928-, Colombian Writer

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(68 votes)   What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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(67 votes)   Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(67 votes)   My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Adrienne Rich
1929-, American Poet

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(66 votes)   Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

John W. Whitehead

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(66 votes)   My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Budinton Kelland

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(65 votes)   Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Laurence J. Peter

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(65 votes)   The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(63 votes)   A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(61 votes)   Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

Ted Cook

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(61 votes)   When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic

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(60 votes)   A baby usually wakes up in the wee-wee hours of the morning.

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(60 votes)   It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

James C. Dobson

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(60 votes)   There's nothing wrong with teenagers that trying to reason with them won't aggravate.

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(59 votes)   By the time a girl becomes a teenager, her parents are so old that she cannot do anything with them.

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