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We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childis...

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Ernest HemingwayTrue At First Light: A Fictional Memoir

No one chooses to raise children alone.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by ro...

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In children's art class we sat in a ring of kindergarten chairs and drew three daffodils that had ju...

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When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we ...

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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than...

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All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Child...

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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than...

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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...

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My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally...

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Oh, why did nobody warn me?" cried Grimes in agony. "I should have been told. They should have told ...

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I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of th...

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People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to hav...

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Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement an...

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It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. ...

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Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally impo...

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Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campo...

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A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keepi...

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When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the m...

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Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their...

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a chil...

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That we shall use every discovery of science in the preservation of our children's health goes witho...

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I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to o...

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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have chi...

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Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to ...

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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toe...

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Florence KingReflections in a Jaundiced Eye

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of ...

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Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them ...

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

The spirits of children are remote and wise...

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

They're a pair of young Satans.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...

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The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique cap...

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Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children kn...

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I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like,...

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My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f...

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We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditi...

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Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general tho...

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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the ...

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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is se...

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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of s...

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Fred RogersThe Mister Rogers' Parenting Book: Helping To Understand Your Young Child

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the paren...

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Fulton J. SheenLife Is Worth Living

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's ...

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In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a ...

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But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of ch...

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes,...

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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the c...

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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so...

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some cr...

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What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is...

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the inter...

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a pa...

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of d...

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Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pu...

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It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master...

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He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and...

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The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go...

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George MacDonaldThe Princess and Curdie

Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the manif...

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Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with Go...

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It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into ...

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Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organiza...

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Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fier...

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Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as...

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Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the pris...

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It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies,...

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Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is ama...

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Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marve...

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It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfi...

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, thou...

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Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationsh...

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English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of...

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If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be ...

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We could see that our mothers blackmailed us with self-sacrifice, even if we did not know whether or...

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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o...

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Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying ...

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Gerry SpenceGive Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, t...

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