Children Quotes

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I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as O

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

Wisdom Life Age Children Gossip Giants Profound

Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an a

Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.

Deborah Harkness

Wisdom Life Children

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who

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

Children

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton Wilder

Children

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Children Inspirational

A parent's words maybe a little harsh and painful, but it wi

A parent's words maybe a little harsh and painful, but it will be their annoying redundant words of love and care that will mold us into a better person.

Rea Erika Paraz Ebate

Parenting Children Inspirational Young Adult

His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If the

His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.

Elizabeth Spencer

Happiness Love Children Mississippi Authors

Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water

Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? ? That's because they know an important truth - Life was meant to be lived. ? Puddles were meant to be experienced.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

George R.R. Martin

Children Inspirational Stories Grieving

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural l

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Life Nature Learning Teacher Parenting Children Mistakes

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Bernhard Schlink

Children Inspirational Philosophical

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is f

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

Beauty Children Ugliness Babies

May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.

May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.

Life Children Inspirational Keeping The Inner Child

At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and sho

At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and shouted one word to her child.That word, reader, was adieu...Adieu is the French word for farewell. Farewell is not the word you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by two oversize mice in black hoods... Farewell is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

Children Inspirational Writing From The Heart

My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love

My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.

Parenting Children Inspirational Parent Special Needs Down Syndrome

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholes

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

Life Children

...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you comp

...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...

Beauty Love Children Kindness Relationships

All children are love children, he said, but only the best o

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

Love Children Moon Auster Palace

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway...let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

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Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and r

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

Life Knowledge Children