Children

(50 votes)   Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.

Thomas Bray

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(49 votes)   It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.

Elinor Goulding Smith

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(49 votes)   The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

Shannon Fife

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(48 votes)   Always obey your parents - when they are present.

Mark Twain

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(48 votes)   Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

Shannon Fife

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(47 votes)   A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(47 votes)   As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

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(47 votes)   Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin
1939-, American Journalist, Author

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(47 votes)   It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(47 votes)   The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil, and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori

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(47 votes)   Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

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(46 votes)   Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

John Bradshaw
American Author, Lecturer, Leading Expert, Recovery & Dysfunctional Families

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(46 votes)   If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

Dave Barry

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(46 votes)   In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(46 votes)   Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.

Louis Kaplan

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